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News Articles: Housing Market

Children ride scooters past a house for sale in Los Angeles. Home sales have slowed as mortgage rates have climbed.

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  • Business

2022 marked the end of cheap mortgages and now the housing market has turned icy cold

The buying frenzy of a year ago is long gone. Home buyers have pulled away, sellers are holding back, and the whole housing market is locked in a deep freeze.

December 26, 2022
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By:
  • Arezou Rezvani
Mortgage rates keep rising, making home ownership unaffordable for millions of Americans. Since the start of the year higher rates have added about $1,000 to the monthly payment to buy a typical house.

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  • Your Money

Buying a home gets even harder as mortgage rates top 7%

It's harder to afford homeownership than it's been in decades as a steep run-up in both prices during the pandemic and more recently interest rates hit buyers from both sides.

October 27, 2022
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
People shop in a Manhattan store on Oct. 26, 2022 in New York City. Inflation, in the form of higher prices for gas, food and other consumer goods is weighing on U.S. economic growth.

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  • Economy

New GDP report shows an economic turnaround, but don't be fooled

Thursday's GDP report shows the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 2.6% in July, August and September, after shrinking in the first half of the year.

October 27, 2022
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By:
  • Scott Horsley
Mike Johansen stands by the door of the camping trailer where the couple is living while they wait for construction on their new home to be finished.

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  • Economy

With mortgage rates near 7%, the housing party is over. Now it's hangover time

The highest rates in 20 years are dashing the dreams of some would-be homebuyers. Others stretch to buy but spend close to $1,000 a month more in monthly payments for a typical house.

October 13, 2022
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
 A Georgia House legislative committee is looking for ways to address a lack of affordable housing for renters, entry-level homeowners and middle-class families. The committee is looking at how workforce housing could ease some of the pressure and what impact building and design standards are having on the market.

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  • News

Kia plant CEO tells state lawmakers affordable housing shortage hurting worker recruitment

Kia’s assembly plant in West Point opened in 2008 with more than enough workers available to produce the first cars. Now, it’s become much harder to fill the 500 new jobs needed to get a new compact SUV off the assembly line.

September 30, 2022
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Katrina Wooten signed a contract to buy this home that's under construction near Gainesville, Fla. Then mortgage rates jumped sharply higher.

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  • Your Money

Adjustable rate mortgages can be cheaper but risky. Here's what you need to know

With mortgage rates up sharply, many more homebuyers are turning to adjustable rate loans. These can be more affordable, at least at first. But they come with a big risk. Is it worth it?

September 10, 2022
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
The U.S. needs 4 million more homes in order to keep up with demand. But high prices and mortgage rates are making builders question whether they want to build homes that might not sell.

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  • Economy

The U.S. needs more homes, but builders may be slowing construction

The U.S. has a home shortage, but builders may be slowing instead of increasing construction because of worries that the homes won't be sold.

June 15, 2022
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By:
  • Jacqueline GaNun
A "for sale" sign is posted on a home last month in Philadelphia.

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  • Economy

First-time homebuyers are getting squeezed out by investors

With a historic shortage of homes for sale, investors making cash offers are pushing first-time homebuyers out of the market.

February 18, 2022
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By:
  • Chris Arnold and
  • Anthony Tellez
New homes under construction in Mebane, N.C., earlier this month. A historic shortage of homes for sale has been pushing prices sharply higher. So builders are trying to ramp up projects.

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  • Your Money

Home prices rose faster than ever in 2021. The typical home gained $50,000 in value

For first time homebuyers it was one of the hardest years ever to afford a house. But homeowners saw tremendous gains in housing wealth.

January 20, 2022
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
Lauren Barber stands in her home in Columbus, Ohio, on Nov. 16. Barber has been inundated with offers from investors and companies that want to buy her house. She sometimes gets called or texted more than five times a day with offers.

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  • Economy

Hey, I want to buy your house: Homeowners besieged by unsolicited offers

Lots of speculators are jockeying to get in on the hot market. Sometime they call homeowners multiple times a day. It can be an invasive nuisance, or worse.

November 20, 2021
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  • Chris Arnold
Lumber is piled at a housing construction site, Thursday, June 24, 2021, in Middleton, Mass. Home construction in the U.S. rose a strong 6.3% in June, another big swing in what has been an up-and-down year so far. The rise in June put home construction at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.64 million units, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday, July 20.

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  • News

Georgia Today: Why Georgia’s Timber Growers Come Up Short In Pandemic Building Boom

The COVID-19 pandemic is sparking an unprecedented boom in housing sales and remodeling across the country as many Americans seek more space in which to live, work and learn at home. The historic levels of consumer demand over the last year has pushed finished lumber prices to all-time highs and Georgia’s massive timber industry that employs hundreds of thousands of people is struggling to adjust. The latest Georgia Today podcast with guest Ryan Dezember, a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, explores the lumber boom's impact on the state’s critical timber industry and its growers, and what all this could mean for home prices. 

July 30, 2021
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By:
  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jess Mador
Marissa Lovell had hoped to buy her small Boise, Idaho, rental home until the price shot up by nearly $100,000 amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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  • National

Homebuyers Squeezed As Western States See Prices Double Or More In Last Decade

The pandemic has made the housing market even tighter in the mountain West, where first-time buyers are trying to decide whether this is just the future or a bubble headed eventually for a bust.

May 28, 2021
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By:
  • Kirk Siegler
The supply of previously owned single-family homes fell to a 2.4 months in October — the lowest since 1982, when the National Association of Realtors began collecting the data.

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  • Economy

'We Need To Build More Homes': Prices Soar Amid Housing Shortage

It's not only low interest rates pushing up prices to record highs. A historic lack of homes for sale is a big part of it too. And it's making homeownership unaffordable for too many people.

November 19, 2020
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
My dream Zoom house in Truckee, California.

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  • Economy

Zoom Towns And The New Housing Market For The 2 Americas

One America is living in a housing boom. The other needs support from the government or family for an affordable place to live.

September 08, 2020
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By:
  • Greg Rosalsky
Caroline Wells and her family at their new home outside San Antonio. The builders just finished it so the yard has yet to be planted, but the couple are looking forward to letting the kids run out their energy with a lot more outdoor space than they had at their home in the city.

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  • Economy

More Space, Please: Home Sales Booming Despite Pandemic, Recession

Despite high unemployment, a severe recession and economic uncertainty, the housing market is on a tear. Sales are booming, and prices hit a record high. Low rates and remote work are driving factors.

August 28, 2020
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
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