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Last month, the median home listing price reached $435,000, a slight, $5,000 decrease compared to July. While down from June 2022’s record high of $449,000, home prices remain about as high as...
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The number of Americans who relocate each year has been trending downward for decades. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, only 28.2 million people moved to a new home in 2022, down from 41.1...
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Blessed with fair year-round weather and its proximity to the economic powerhouse of Hollywood, Santa Barbara has for decades attracted the rich and famous. George Lucas, Oprah Winfrey, and Ellen...
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The number of Americans who relocate each year has been trending downward for decades. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, only 28.2 million people moved to a new home in 2022, down from 41.1...
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Many parts of the United States face serious housing shortages. One study last year by the nonprofit research group Up For Growth estimated that the country needs about 3.8 million homes simply to...
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The number of Americans who relocate each year has been trending downward for decades. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, only 28.2 million people moved to a new home in 2022, down from 41.1...
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The first two years of the coronavirus pandemic had a profound impact on the U.S. housing market as Americans fled expensive, high-population areas to mid-sized cities or adjoining suburbs in...
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This July, there were 20.8% fewer newly listed homes for sale than during July last year. Although active inventory has grown since June at a normal seasonal rate, there were still 45,000 fewer...
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The median home sale price in the U.S. fell by 13% in the first half of 2023, down from an all-time high of $479,500 at the end of 2022. While the housing market appears to have improved some for...
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Technology and finance, two of the biggest engines of the American economy, have provided the financial wherewithal for people to construct mega homes in the U.S. To identify the American places with...
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Mortgage rates have recently risen to levels not seen in over 20 years, with average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage interest rates climbing to over 7%, while the rates for borrowers who have low credit...
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Over the last five years, the U.S. population grew by 2.7%, increasing from approximately 327 million in 2016 to nearly 332 million in 2021, with immigration accounting for nearly the entire...
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Amidst the early stages of the pandemic, there was a remarkable surge in home sales across the United States. The homeownership rate in the U.S. escalated from 65.3% to 67.9% between the first and...
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San Francisco’s Bay Area was an affordable hippie and music enclave in the 1960s that later became a magnet for the gay community in the 1980s. The rise of the U.S. tech industry in the ’90s...
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