Housing Market

Incomplete Checklist for Jobs and Housing

The latest jobs report checks all the boxes for the Fed to hike rates when it meets next week. But when it comes to housing, the job market comes up uncomfortably short.

Home Sellers Are Losing Their Market Advantage

After a year of heated competition for homes across the country, the balance of power between buyers and sellers is shifting. In a survey of 900 Redfin agents across the country conducted last month, only 6 percent believed sellers held all the power, down from 36 percent in the first quarter.

Bigger Mortgages, Tiny Offices and Cards Against Urbanity

Last week, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac made it a little easier to get a mortgage. This week, climate talks might actually yield something, Janet Yellen gives us her two cents–twice!–and Congress tries to avoid a government shutdown. On Friday, we get the most important jobs report of all time. Also: Cards Against Urbanity. Small […]
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