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A pedestrian walks by a Wells Fargo home mortgage office in San Francisco. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images If you’re in the market for a home and haven’t locked in a mortgage rate yet, that home just got more expensive.  The average rate on the popular 30-year mortgage hit 3.64% Monday morning, after rising sharply

For many homeowners, the pandemic offered an unprecedented opportunity to build wealth. Those opportunities still exist, even though they are getting harder to come by. Thanks to skyrocketing housing prices, the amount of home equity is at an all-time high. As of the third quarter of last year, homeowners held $9.4 trillion in equity to

In this article 813-HK Pedestrians near the Riviera Garden residential property, developed by Shimao Group Holdings Ltd., in Shanghai, China, on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Shimao spiked nearly 7% on Monday after Chinese business publication Caixin reported the embattled developer is selling all of its real

InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland, a luxury hotel developed by Shimao and managed by IHG, opened in 2018 and is pictured here on Oct. 11, 2020. Costfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — One of China’s healthiest real estate developers has reportedly defaulted, a sign of how more pain is ahead for the heavily indebted

Fans for the Tennessee Titans and the Los Angeles Rams before an NFL football game at SoFi Stadium, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021, in Inglewood, Calif. Marcio Jose Sanchez | AP The Buffalo Bills are seeking a new $1.3 billion National Football League stadium. The Chicago Bears are spending $197 million to acquire land that could

A 105,000-square-foot megamansion, known as “The One,” in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles listed Friday for $295 million, making it the most expensive listing in America. The property, which has been a decade in the making, would be the most expensive home ever sold in the U.S. if it gets its asking price

The Covid pandemic caused a surge in housing costs and a rise in unemployment, leaving nearly 600,000 Americans unhoused in 2020. “What people don’t typically realize when they walk past a person who’s homeless is that this person is costing taxpayers a lot of money,” said Sam Tsemberis, chief executive officer at Pathways Housing First

Home prices and rents are soaring, but home prices are rising faster. And that’s shrinking the affordability gap between owning a home and renting one. Median-priced, single-family homes are less affordable than they have been historically in just over three quarters of the nation. That’s up from 39% at the end of 2020, and it’s

Austin, Texas. Ryan Martinez | Moment | Getty Images Several states have stopped accepting applications for federal rental assistance. The programs in New Jersey, New York, Oregon and Texas, as well as Washington, D.C., are either closed or on hold, leaving many struggling renters cut off from their only hope of paying off their debt

FG Trade | E+ | Getty Images Even as the coronavirus continues to upend American life, most pandemic-era relief measures have dried up by now. The recent shelving of the Build Back Better Act, the massive spending bill with a number of provisions to lift up middle-class families, means the chances for new relief is

Jb Reed | Bloomberg | Getty Images The economic damage from the omicron variant of the coronavirus is now expected to be less than initially thought, and that has interest rates back on their upward trajectory yet again. As a result, mortgage demand fell 2.7% to end 2021, compared with two weeks before, according to

China’s property developers could come under greater scrutiny for flouting environmental laws, as Beijing steps up efforts to reinforce rules, according to one portfolio manager.  The latest move by Chinese authorities to order indebted property developer China Evergrande to demolish 39 buildings of its Ocean Flower Island project came as a surprise to many, said Teresa Kong,

A “Sold” sign is displayed outside a home under construction at a Lennar Corp. development in Montgomery, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images As the broader markets rallied to start the new year Monday, the homebuilding sector sold off. The iShares US Home Construction ETF lost 2.69% on Monday, its worst day since

In this article SIL-IN When Elon Musk unveiled the Tesla Solar Roof in 2016, it was the first that many people had heard of solar shingles. But the idea of a roofing product that can both generate energy and blend in with regular asphalt shingles has been around for decades. Companies from Dow Chemical Company