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Westend61 Forty-eight percent of renters worry they won’t be able to buy a home during their lifetimes, according to a new Lending Tree survey. That concern is largest among renters in Generation X (41 to 55 years old) and millennials (25 to 40 years old). To that point, 55% of Gen X renters and 52%

The CEO of real estate brokerage Redfin told CNBC on Friday he believes there has yet to be a serious reckoning among U.S. homebuyers about the dangers climate change presents. “The buyers just keep marching into the jaws of destruction,” Redfin’s Glenn Kelman said in an interview on “Closing Bell.” Wildfire season in the American West is

As wildfires tear across America’s West, the immediate risk is to life and property, but they will eventually affect water supplies. That’s one reason large corporations are beginning to help fund forest restoration in order to mitigate their water risk.  The water supply for many communities, including large cities, starts in mountains and national forests.

Singapore has hinted that unvaccinated travelers may be subject to longer quarantine periods and additional testing. franckreporter | E+ | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Housing prices have shot up across cities in Asia-Pacific this year, fueled by record low interest rates amid the pandemic. Optimism has also gained steam as vaccination rates gain pace, and

A crowd of supporters including elected officials, legal professionals and concerned neighbors gathered to attempt to stop an illegal eviction of a resident in Bushwick, Brooklyn during the State mandated moratorium due to the pandemic, August 8, 2020. Erik McGregor | LightRocket | Getty Images New York State lawmakers have voted to extend an eviction

The U.S. housing market has been an unlikely beneficiary from the Covid-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, home prices have climbed at a record pace. The median price for an existing home reached over $363,000 in June 2021, a 23.4% year-over-year increase. “You can see in just basically the last 15 months or so, we’ve seen

Peter Thiel Adam Jeffery | CNBC Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who co-founded PayPal and Palantir and backed Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, has filed plans to build large complex on a 193-hectare estate that he owns on the South Island of New Zealand. Thiel, who was also an early investor in Facebook and currently

The exterior of the Gloria Crest Estate located in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. LuxQue Media / Mike Aghachi A mansion was once hailed as one of the most expensive homes for sale in New Jersey, has seen its price drop like a ton of bricks. Back in 2013, the 28-room estate at 83 North Woodland

A “For Sale” sign outside a house in West Palm Beach, Florida, April 7, 2021. Marco Bello | Bloomberg | Getty Images A prolonged period of low mortgage rates is taking its toll on the refinance market, as most borrowers who qualify have already gone through the process. The average contract interest rate for 30-year

Visoot Uthairam | Moment | Getty Images Scammers have bilked Americans out of $545 million in Covid-related fraud since the beginning of 2020 in a range of schemes from online shopping to travel, according to the FTC. The agency received almost 589,000 consumer complaints associated with the pandemic from Jan. 1, 2020 to Aug. 30,

Jianbi Chen | iStock | Getty Images Now that struggling renters are no longer protected by a national ban on evictions, it has become even more pressing for those households to get approved for federal rental assistance. Congress has allocated more than $45 billion in rental assistance to address the crisis hitting tenants and their

Kameleon007 | iStock | Getty Images The national eviction ban is no longer in effect, after the Supreme Court struck it down last week, leaving the more than 11 million Americans still behind on their rent at risk of being forced out of their homes. However, at least four states and Washington, D.C., will continue

Housing prices across Asia-Pacific are surging — in some cases, by as much as 37%. Homebuyers are taking advantage of continued pandemic-induced stimulus, while international investors are looking for a place to put their money. To get a better picture of where real estate prices are going, CNBC compared the median sale prices of one-,

The mansion at 1108 Wallace Ridge in Beverly Hills, California is 18,000 square feet and unfolds over two levels. Mark Angeles It took six years for this $65 million megahome to rise up on a ridge in Los Angeles. Back in 2014, an outdated mansion sat on the half-acre lot at 1108 Wallace Ridge. It