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Zillow: Student loan borrowers had 3.5 years without payments, yet many still can’t afford to break into the housing market

The savings accrued from over three years without having to pay student loans still isn’t sufficient to cover a down payment.

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The ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’ gives millennials a 10-year boost over their peers

It’s compounding the existing wealth gap in a housing market where prices have risen steeply and mortgage rates have soared in recent years.

Fortune

Where are Home Prices Headed for the Remainder of 2023 and Beyond?

After peaking during the pandemic, housing sales have slowed but prices remain elevated. Where is the housing market headed?

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Housing market deep freeze: The Fed successfully froze U.S. home prices for one year

Between May 2022 and May 2023, U.S. home prices fell 0.5%—compared to the 19.9% uptick from May 2021 to May 2022.

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Robert Shiller predicted the 2008 bursting housing bubble. Here's his latest housing market call

Shiller: "It has been growing since 2012, it has been about 10 years of steady growth in home prices. But it may be coming to an end"

Fortune

The housing market's 'lock-in effect' is very real—just look at this map

"Financing these at 3% [mortgage rates] then jumping rates to 6% is the same as burning them [the homes] down from a supply perspective"

Fortune

Existing-home sales fall but prices continue rising

The housing market remained soft in June, a new report by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) shows. Sales of existing homes — previously occupied properties, rather than newly built homes — resumed their long downward slide, dropping 3.3%. The number of sales in June was off 18.9% compared to…

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Inflation may be cooling, but the housing market is still too hot for many buyers

The median home price has risen to $413,800 – the second-highest price ever — thanks to a shortage of homes on the market and high mortgage rates. Experts say renting may be a better option.

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Eight Great Places to Live in Texas

Over the last two decades, the Texas population has more than doubled, with people drawn to the state's lack of personal income tax and affordable cost of living. Here are eight places to live in Texas for those looking to make the move.

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Middle class homebuyers are taking on $7,000 mortgages with plans to later refinance down

The U.S. housing market firmed up this year. One reason being that buyers jumped in assuming they'll be able to refinance to a lower rate in the near future.

Fortune

UK housing market forecast to avoid slump despite zero growth in prices

Rents jump by record 5.1% in a month as rental market struggles to meet demand from priced-out buyers

The Guardian - UK

Four years of housing market gridlock? Goldman Sachs issues U.S. home price predictions through 2026

The struggle between tight inventory and deteriorated affordability will see U.S. home prices end 2026 just 4.5% above the 2022 peak, predicts Goldman Sachs.

Fortune

A fight erupts in U.S. housing market as deteriorated affordability clashes with the 'lock-in effect'

Housing economists say neither force should be ignored.

Fortune

Morningstar: These 15 housing markets have the highest level of correction risk—these 15 have the least risk

Morningstar: "Buyer exuberance during the pandemic, aided by ultralow borrowing costs, pushed home prices to an unmaintainable level in some markets."

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A millennial entrepreneur who’s raised over $1.5 million for his 2 small businesses says he lives in his parents’ basement because nobody will give him a mortgage

This serial entrepreneur owns two small businesses, has raised upward of $1.5 million from private equity to date, and yet the bank won’t give him a mortgage.

Fortune

Housing market shortage is so acute and the office glut is so big that Boston will offer 75% tax breaks on office-to-residential conversions

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: "We must take every possible action to create more housing and more affordability so that Boston’s growth meets the needs of current and future residents,"

The Independent UK

Average long-term US mortgage rate surged to nearly 7% this week to highest level since November

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed this week to just under 7%, the highest level since November and the latest setback for homebuyers already grappling with a tough housing market constrained by a dearth of homes for sale

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Rising mortgage rates put pressure on housing market in Wales

The latest market survey from RICS showed house prices are expected to fall between July and September

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The Guardian - UK

Renting a room in UK tops £700 a month on average

Analysts say 17% rise from spring 2022 shows ‘housing market isn’t working for anyone’

Fortune

Housing market affordability is so out of whack that 'the bulk of the drop in home prices is yet to come', says Pantheon Macroeconomics

Pantheon Macroeconomics: "We are baffled by the emerging narrative in the commentariat that housing is now recovering, because it isn’t."

Fortune

Morningstar makes a bold call that housing market affordability will be restored by 2025. Here's how

Morningstar expects mortgage rates to plunge to 4.00% by 2025.

Fortune

Housing market inventory is so tight that only one of the nation’s 100 largest markets saw a home price decline in May

Black Knight: Among the nation’s 100 largest housing markets, 99 saw a home price increase in May.

Fortune

Opendoor CEO on housing market instability

Opendoor is one of 52 women-led Fortune 500 companies.

The Independent UK

Mapped: House prices fall at fastest annual rate in 12 years as mortgage rates soar

Annual drop of 2.6% in June is largest year-on-year decrease since June 2011, Halifax said

The Independent UK

Bank of England warned 7 per cent interest rates would send shock wave through housing market

A leading economist says there is ‘no need to panic’ as Britain is ‘not in an 07-08 scenario’

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