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Home affordability keeps getting worse and worse.

A 19-year-old man trying to evade police was involved in a violent car crash in Belchertown, Massachusetts, on Sunday that killed him.

Four people are dead and a fifth person is missing after a home exploded Saturday in Plum, Pennsylvania.

The share of fathers taking up the role of stay-at-home dads has increased by several points since the late 1980s, data analysis by Pew Research Center shows.

The gains in April were driven by single-family construction in the West and multifamily construction around the country.

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said on Tuesday that its monthly index of homebuilder confidence jumped five point to 50 in May, the fifth consecutive monthly gain and the strongest reading since July 2022. 

A woman in Centennial, Colorado, was not sure what to do when she moved into a home in April only to realize it was infested with snakes.

The latest evidence of an earlier than expected recovery for the housing market.

A much bigger jump in home sales than expected.

The Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is developing a policy that could ban people from smoking in their own apartments.

Home prices are still up a lot compared with a year ago but the housing market is cooling and now seeing month-to-month declines.

Home prices are likely to keep declining as interest rates climb higher.

We’re in a housing recession in terms of sales and building. Prices, however, remain high.

Construction of single-family homes has fallen below its prepandemic level.

Private spending on single-family homes crashed 3.1 percent in June.

China’s purchase of American homes and land is a “huge problem,” Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in an interview.

“Falling housing affordability continues to take a toll on potential home buyers,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. “Both mortgage rates and home prices have risen too sharply in a short span of time.”

Higher rates and high prices are clobbering demand for mortgages.

Higher borrowing costs are pushing buyers out of the market.

Pending home sales fell by more than twice what was expected.

Another casualty of the Biden era: housing affordability.

Construction delays, high prices for materials, and rising interest rates took a bite out of single-family construction in March.

Supply chain disruptions, high costs of materials, and rising interest rates are weighing down home builder confidence.

Canada’s federal government announced on Thursday plans to ban foreigners from purchasing homes in Canada for two years in an effort to lower surging home prices within the North American country, the BBC reported.

Home prices are surging even while mortgage rates are climbing, creating an affordability crunch.

The usual relationship of completions to construction has been flipped on its head for nine months.

Skyrocketing prices for materials and widespread shortages are behind the surprise decline in building activity in January.

The Biden administration’s housing policies are failing to increase home affordability.

Apartment construction picked up in August but single-family house construction dipped.

Contracts to purchase previously owned U.S. homes fell for the second straight month in July, the latest sign that economic activity slowed mid-summer as the Delta variant ramped up the rate of coronavirus infections and inflation pumped up prices. The

The median price of existing homes sold in the U.S. hit a record high in March even while sales volumes fell below expectations.

Compared with a year ago, the private sector spent 20.6 percent more on single-family construction in February.

A record low supply of homes took a big bite out of home sales in February.

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering the entire U.S., reported an 11.2 percent annual gain in January, up from 10.4 percent in the previous month. That is the fastest pace for home prices since 2006, the peak of the housing bubble.

Economists had expected sales to cool to 875,000 from the hotter than expected 923,000 in January.

Total existing-home sales dropped 6.6 percent from January to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 6.22 million, the National Association of Realtors reported Monday. This followed two months of higher sales.