Rental Vacancy Rose to 7.6% in the Third Quarter as Homeowner Vacancy Held Steady
New Census figures show a higher share of vacant rental housing than a year earlier, while the apparent rise in homeownership was not statistically significant.
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Rental Vacancy Rose to 7.6% in the Third Quarter as Homeowner Vacancy Held Steady
New Census figures show a higher share of vacant rental housing than a year earlier, while the apparent rise in homeownership was not statistically significant.
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The 10-Year Treasury Yield Falls Below 5%, but Mortgage Relief Is Not Yet Established
A 17-basis-point decline on October 22 reversed the week's rise in the 10-year yield. The move follows a Federal Reserve assessment that financing remained restrictive for home borrowers.
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Fed Minutes Show Most Officials Saw Another Rate Increase Ahead, Even as Housing Lagged
The October 7 release reveals a split between broadly supportive financial conditions and a mortgage market where borrowing remained depressed.
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Consumer Sentiment Slips Again as Borrowing Costs and Gas Prices Weigh on Households
The University of Michigan's preliminary October survey found sentiment falling for a third straight month, with current economic conditions hitting a record low as long-term interest rates surge.
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The 30-Year Mortgage Rate Climbs to 7.40%, Its Highest Since 2023
Freddie Mac's weekly survey recorded a seventh straight increase in the 30-year fixed rate, pushing financing costs to levels not seen in nearly three years.
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HUD Lays Out a Seven-Step Path to Chassis-Free Manufactured Homes
The agency's Next Generation Manufactured Housing Action Plan begins implementing a new law that drops the decades-old steel chassis requirement, though officials say rulemaking could take more than a year.
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Mortgage Demand Drops Again as Borrowing Costs Hit a Near Three-Year High
The Mortgage Bankers Association's weekly survey shows applications fell 4.2% as the average 30-year rate climbed to 7.49%, with refinancing activity sinking to roughly half of last year's pace.
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Rents Post Their Biggest Jump in a Year as Home Sales Cool Early
Zillow's September market report shows rent growth hitting its fastest pace since April 2025 even as buyer activity for owner-occupied homes slips into an early seasonal slowdown.
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Mega Investors Expand Their Home-Buying Share as Individual Buyers Retreat
Cotality data analyzed by Realtor.com show large institutional investors increasing their purchase share even as overall housing demand cools.
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Price Cuts Hit a September Record as Inventory Nears Pre-Pandemic Levels
Realtor.com's monthly housing report shows sellers trimming prices at the highest September rate since 2018 while pending sales post their steepest annual drop in more than a year.
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Federal Realty Pays $508 Million for a Birmingham Shopping Center That Never Changed Hands
The real estate investment trust's purchase of The Summit ends more than three decades of ownership by the retail center's original developer.
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Mortgage Rates Jump to 7.28%, the Highest Reading in Nearly Three Years
Freddie Mac's weekly survey shows the steepest one-week rate increase in roughly four years, pushing borrowing costs to levels not seen since late 2023.
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Construction Spending Rises for a Second Month Even as It Trails Last Year
Census Bureau data show August outlays climbing on a residential rebound, but total spending remains below year-ago levels for an eighth straight month.
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Griffin's $1.1 Billion Wynwood Purchase Resets Florida's Land-Price Record
A closed deal for roughly 30 acres in Miami's Wynwood district becomes the largest land assemblage sale in state history and the anchor for a new Carnegie Mellon campus.
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FHFA Index Shows July Home Prices Up 0.3%, but Regional Gains Range From a Loss to Six Percent
The federal repeat-sales index points to broad national appreciation of 2.6% over the year, masking a split between a weak Mountain division and a strong Middle Atlantic.
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HUD Opens Comment Period on Inspection Scoring Changes Affecting Public and Multifamily Housing
A pre-published notice revises how new safety requirements are scored starting October 1, alongside corrections to the sampling and scoring tables inspectors use nationwide.
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Weekly Housing Data Show Demand Cracking as Mortgage Rates Flirt With 7.5%
A volatile bond market pushed borrowing costs to the highest level of the cycle, and the latest weekly tracker shows pending sales, price cuts and purchase applications all moving in the wrong direction for buyers.
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Factory Orders Held Flat in August as Transportation Equipment Dragged on an Otherwise Steady Report
Census data show new orders for durable goods essentially unchanged from July, with the drag concentrated in aircraft and vehicles rather than the broader industrial base builders and suppliers depend on.
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White House Asks Congress to Cancel $56 Million in HUD Housing-Counseling Funds Days Before It Expires
A September 25 rescission request targets nearly all of the money Congress set aside for homebuyer counseling in fiscal 2025, using a timing tactic critics call a pocket rescission.
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New-Home Sales Jumped 6.4% in August, but the Median Price Fell Below Last Year's Level
Census and HUD data show builders moved more homes even as pricing slipped, with unsold inventory still running above eight months of supply.
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