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Pedestrians near Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Marlena Sloss | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence has been a big boon for San Francisco real estate. But not enough of one to make up for the broader struggle across the market. The vacancy rate for San Francisco office space

A sign advertising a home for sale is displayed outside of a Manhattan building in New York City on April 11, 2024. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Manhattan is becoming a buyer’s market as apartment prices fell and inventory rose in the second quarter of 2024, according to new reports. The average real estate sales

Vm | E+ | Getty Images Buying a home and maintainingit is expensive, but selling it is costly, too, according to a new report. It typically costs $54,616 to sell a house in 2024, according to a June 17 report from Clever Real Estate. Almost half of surveyed home sellers, or 42%, said their costs

A townhouse for sale in the Upper East Side neighborhood of NYC.  Adam Jeffery | CNBC Some of the heat is coming out of home prices, even though they’re still higher than they were a year ago. Several new reports show the price gains are shrinking and home sellers are starting to give in after

An aerial view shows a subdivision that has replaced the once rural landscape on July 19, 2023 in Hawthorn Woods, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images After a weaker-than-expected spring housing market, summer looks no better. High home prices continue to rise, mortgage rates aren’t coming off recent highs, and consumers are unimpressed by the

Tourists walk through a park in Chicago, on May 26, 2024.   Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg via Getty Images Many major U.S. cities have seen apartment prices soar in the past year, even as the typical American has seen pandemic-era rent inflation cool substantially. For example, renters in Syracuse, New York, saw monthly rents for one- and

Thana Prasongsin | Moment | Getty Images The typical newly built house on the market these days is smaller than those for sale a decade ago. Whether that is a good or bad sign will depend on your priorities for your future home.  In the first quarter of 2024, a single family home newly under

Home prices set another record in April, even as mortgage rates rose and the supply of homes for sale increased. Usually, under those circumstances, prices would weaken, but today’s housing market is unlike any other in recent history. Prices in April rose 6.3% compared with the year-earlier month, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National

10’000 Hours | Digitalvision | Getty Images There are areas in the U.S. that are considered to be the least difficult places to buy a home, according to a new real estate indicator. When the counties are sorted by index rank, Iroquois County, Illinois is the least difficult market to buy a home, according to

Sales of previously owned homes are sitting at a 30-year low and didn’t move much in May as prices hit a new record and mortgage rates remain high. So-called existing home sales in May were essentially flat, down 0.7% from April to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 4.11 million units, according to the National

Leopatrizi | E+ | Getty Images More built-for-rent single-family homes are being constructed in the U.S., according to the National Association of Home Builders, and experts say this is in part due to the housing affordability crisis. “When mortgage rates move higher, and it’s harder to buy a home, renting becomes more of an option,”

File photos: “For Sale” sign Brandon Bell | Getty Images Consumers seemed unimpressed by the latest drop in mortgage rates. Total mortgage application volume rose just 0.9% compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($766,550

Hong Kong retained its pole position as the world’s most expensive city for expats in 2024, according to Mercer. Chunyip Wong | E+ | Getty Images Asia’s biggest financial hubs have once again clinched the top spots for being the costliest cities for international workers to live in, according to Mercer.  Hong Kong was ranked

Row of shophouses in Singapore’s Katong area. Olivier Chouchana | Gamma-rapho | Getty Images SINGAPORE — The ornate, colorful “shophouses” that line the streets in some old neighborhoods of Singapore are not what immediately comes to mind when people think of the city-state. In a country where land is scarce and public housing can cost