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Byline: RACHELLE YOUNGLAI, Staff Lead Canada's housing market is showing signs of vulnerability during the pandemic, according to a new assessment by the federal housing agency, which is revising an [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK, Staff Lead A personal finance lesson of the past 12 years is that interest-rate forecasts are close to useless - just plan for rates to fall. Keep [...]

Byline: RACHELLE YOUNGLAI, Staff Lead Canada's average home price is expected to jump 9 per cent next year, the country's national real estate group says in a forecast, with record-low [...]

Byline: MATT LUNDY, Staff Lead In a typical recession, there is a triedand-true playbook. Incomes go down. Bankruptcies go up. Consumers pull back on major purchases. The services sector holds [...]

Byline: JAREN KERR, Staff Lead COVID-19 has made it complicated for Danielle Sheahan and her partner to speak to their respective therapists. To ensure privacy during their online sessions, one [...]

Byline: SHANE DINGMAN, Staff TORONTO -- Lead THE LISTING Despairing of ever being able to afford a home in Toronto, Madeline Taylor, 24, and Mitchell Kingsley, 25, cast their gaze [...]

The rise of suburbanisation and a worsening housing supply crisis mean the capital will lead the UK housing market in the post-pandemic recovery, with Londoners expected to see their house [...]

Byline: RACHELLE YOUNGLAI, Staff Lead New real estate players are trying to grab a piece of Canada's booming real estate market, taking on traditional brokerages in the latest battle for [...]

Byline: CAROLYN IRELAND, Staff TORONTO -- Lead Jimmy Molloy of Chestnut Park Real Estate Ltd. recently received a call from another agent asking if he might be able to rustle [...]

Byline: Paul Davidson, USA TODAY The housing market has been booming during the COVID-19 crisis, but America's cities are taking it on the chin. And while big cities such as [...]

Byline: RACHELLE YOUNGLAI, Staff Lead Toronto home prices are overvalued, making it the only North American city at high risk of being in a bubble, according to a new report [...]

With the Federal Reserve keeping rates low, home buyers are benefiting. But savers? Their average interest rate is just 0.05 percent. Historically low interest rates are a boon for home [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK, Staff Lead Our homes are going to be even more central to our lives in the next decade. You'll find a lot of millennials and members of [...]

Byline: CAROLYN IRELAND, Staff TORONTO -- Lead The heatwave in the Torontoarea real estate market in July and August may give way to a slightly cooler September, but buyers and [...]

Byline: Graeme Wearden block-time published-time 10.17am BST The UK property market has also strengthened, as more people jumped onto the housing ladder or shimmied up and down it. Mortgage approvals [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS Lead Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. is bracing for further impacts on the housing market from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Crown corporation says it expects the [...]

Byline: CAROLYN IRELAND, Staff TORONTO -- Lead First-time buyers in the Toronto-area real estate market are anxiously vying for properties in July after the average selling price hit a record [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA -- Lead OTTAWA Homes prices are higher than a year ago in five of six major markets, according to new data from Statistics Canada. Prices [...]

Byline: CAROLYN IRELAND, Staff TORONTO -- Lead The Toronto-area housing market is seeing spurts of frenetic activity this July as buyers and sellers try to make up for an idle [...]

Byline: CAROLYN IRELAND, Staff TORONTO -- Lead Buyers and sellers in the real estate market are finding quiet and creative ways to swap properties in Toronto and surrounding Ontario cities. [...]

Byline: RACHELLE YOUNGLAI, Staff Lead Canada's national housing agency is predicting home prices could plummet up to 18 per cent and mortgage arrears could soar to 20 per cent, a [...]

Byline: Charisse Jones, USA TODAY Home sales will likely plunge this spring in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, but bounce back by the end of next year, according to [...]

Low interest rates should bolster home sales, but other factors can get in the way, the coronavirus among them. In an effort to contain the economic damage inflicted by the [...]

Byline: Charisse Jones, USA TODAY It might sound strange, but if you're looking to buy a home, the coronavirus outbreak could help you out. That's because worries about COVID-19 are [...]

Byline: RACHELLE YOUNGLAI, Staff Lead The Bank of Canada's interestrate cut threatens to overheat the country's booming housing markets, making it easier for homebuyers to borrow and further driving up [...]

Byline: Paul Davidson, USA TODAY Doug Sanders, 26, of Lima, Ohio, always figured he would buy a house after getting married one day. 'I thought it would take two incomes,' [...]

Future generations' hopes for a moderate retirement will be scuppered because they couldn't afford to buy a home, according to economic forecasts that spell trouble for the UK's youngest adults. [...]

Future generations' hopes for a moderate retirement will be scuppered because they couldn't afford to buy a home, according to economic forecasts that spell trouble for the UK's youngest adults. [...]

Byline: Amy Edelen Jan. 30-- Jan. 30--Rosalind Weller had to find another home, and quickly. The landlord of the house Weller rented was putting the property on the market, making [...]

Byline: Robert Stephens BORIS JOHNSON'S election victory has given the housebuilder Barratt Developments reason to cheer. The result eliminated the risk of Labour's 'Land for the Many' housing market ideas [...]

Mallory Harwardt and Max King were renting a dark one-bedroom in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, with a tiny kitchen, two small closets and no laundry room. It wasn't their dream home, [...]

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The summer months in New South Wales can be an exciting time to switch properties. There are however some traps to watch out for and things to consider during the [...]

Washington, DC: National Association of Home Builders has issued the following press release: A trend of higher demand for housing in lower-density areas reported in the second quarter National Association [...]

Millennials entering prime home-buying years. Work-from-home professionals craving more space. Record-low interest rates. This confluence of events drove home prices up in every corner of the U.S. during the third [...]

Millennials entering prime home-buying years. Work-from-home professionals craving more space. Record-low interest rates. This confluence of events drove home prices up in every corner of the U.S. during the third [...]

--Faster nominal house price appreciation can erode, or even eliminate, the boost in affordability from lower mortgage rates, especially if household income growth doesn't keep up, says Chief Economist Mark [...]