December 6, 2023
by Calculated Risk on 12/06/2023 01:31:00 PM Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 1st Look at Local Housing Markets in November with Comparison to 2019 A brief excerpt: NOTE: The tables for active listings, new listings and closed sales all include a comparison to November 2019 for each local market (some 2019 data
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by Calculated Risk on 11/29/2023 10:31:00 AM Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Final Look at Local Housing Markets in September A brief excerpt: NOTE: Starting next month, I’ll add some comparisons to 2019 data (pre-pandemic)! Each month I track closed sales, new listings and active inventory in a sample of local markets
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A Kenyan court ruled on Tuesday that a controversial housing levy introduced by President William Ruto was illegal. A Kenyan court ruled on Tuesday that a controversial housing levy introduced by President William Ruto was illegal, dealing a blow to his plans to try to shore up depleted government coffers. The 1.5-percent levy on the
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Euronews spoke to Wladyslaw Grochowski, who has been recognised, along with his wife, by the UN for providing safe accommodation for refugees in Poland. ADVERTISEMENT Wladyslaw Grochowski and his wife, Lena, have been recognised by the United Nations for their work providing safe accommodation for refugees. The Polish couple launched the Lena Grochowska Foundation in
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A closer look at house prices in 25 major cities around the world shows a sharp decline in prices, according to a study. ADVERTISEMENT The risk of ‘overblown’ property prices has decreased in the world’s biggest cities this past year, according to a recent study by Swiss bank UBS. Its latest Global Real Estate Bubble
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Yves here. A rare bit of cheery climate change news. Housing is an understudied and not surprisingly not-trivial contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. It turns out there’s low hanging fruit in terms of pretty easy fixes to existing stocks. By Maxim Chupilkin, Associate Economist at the Office of the Chief Economist European Bank for Reconstruction
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Councils and charities have welcomed the chancellor’s decision to raise the cap on housing benefits in the Autumn Statement but said this alone would be insufficient to tackle a nationwide resurgence of homelessness and relieve
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by Calculated Risk on 11/20/2023 12:56:00 PM Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 4th Look at Local Housing Markets in October A brief excerpt: The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is scheduled to release October existing home sales on Tuesday, November 21, 2023, at 10:00 AM ET. The consensus is for 3.93 million
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by Calculated Risk on 11/20/2023 08:21:00 AM Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 0.5% week-over-week and is now up slightly year-over-year. This is the latest in the year that inventory was still increasing in this series! Inventory will start decreasing seasonally soon (for Thanksgiving and Christmas). Click on graph for larger image. This
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by Calculated Risk on 11/17/2023 09:19:00 AM Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: October Housing Starts: Near Record Number of Multi-Family Housing Units Under Construction Excerpt: The third graph shows the month-to-month comparison for total starts between 2022 (blue) and 2023 (red). Total starts were down 4.2% in October compared to October 2022. And
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