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Category: Affordability

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New Home Sales Surge to 9-Year High

New home sales in 2016 were the best in nine years, reflecting a combination of solid demand from...
bonnie
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What Locals Hate About New York City and San Francisco

New Yorkers get rankled by noise — be it loud music and parties or banging or loud TVS R...
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Inventory and Price Watch: It’s Harder To Get Started

America’s starter-home shortage is worsening. The number of available homes for the average first...
Justin Wade
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Housing in 2017: Discouraged Democrats, Revived Republicans, and Middling Millennials

The outcome of the 2016 presidential election took many by surprise, and injected both optimism a...
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Prop 13: Winners and Losers From America’s Legendary Taxpayer Revolt

Corrected on Nov. 30 at 1:30 p.m. ET. See below. California’s Proposition 13 is the voter initiat...
bonnie
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Case-Shiller Surpasses Pre-Recession Peak in September, but Recovery Uneven

The National Case-Shiller Home Price Index surpassed its pre-recession peak in September, but cro...
bonnie
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There Doesn’t Go the Neighborhood: Low-Income Housing Has No Impact on Nearby Home Values

Corrected Nov. 29 at 2 pm ET. See below. Some of the nation’s least affordable markets are also g...
Cheryl Young
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House Vote: 2016 Results

While much of the attention Wednesday is understandably focused on the surprising results in the ...
Cheryl Young