Real Estate

KEY POINTS The recent $1.8 billion jury verdict against the National Association of Realtors and several top brokerage firms highlights mounting legal and market pressures on real estate [...]

Total mortgage application volume fell 2.9% last week compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. After rising sharply for several [...]

  Inflation ticked up in July and the benchmark interest rate is already at a 22-year high. With homebuyers already squeezed by current economic conditions, more unwelcome news came out on [...]

With months of promising signs that inflation was finally cooling, many homebuyers were cautiously optimistic that interest rates would be coming down later this year and into 2024. But after a [...]

Last year the 30-year fixed was 5.45%, and in 2021, it was in the 3% range, showing just how far costs have risen since the Federal Reserve began raising rates. Mortgage rates rose for the third [...]

The hottest real estate right now? Strip malls. While office space sits empty and home sales slow, the suburban mainstays are seeing a physical occupancy rate of over 92% — on par with before the [...]

As mortgage rates continue to rise on the back of higher interest rates, seller-financing of home sales is gaining traction, according to The Wall Street Journal. The practice arises in [...]

Boston landlords will soon be able to trade empty office buildings for tax breaks. As the median monthly rent for a one-bedroom in Beantown hits $2,800, the city is tackling its escalating [...]

  The cost of buying a home reached record levels in May, rising 0.7% from April, CNBC reports. According to a new home price index from analytics firm Black Knight, prices in more than half [...]

Home prices fell from a year ago for the first time since 2012, a sign that rising interest rates have begun to weigh on the market. Prices declined 0.2% nationally in April after rising 0.7% in [...]