30-year mortgage rate rises to the highest level in 2 months

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A fight over sewage is preventing Long Island from solving its crippling housing crisis

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Aerial view of a mansion in Suffolk County, New York in 2022.
Aerial view of a mansion in Suffolk County, New York in 2022.

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Experts warned of a housing bubble. They were wrong.

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A housing bubble implies an impending pop that brings home prices crashing down — but there's no pop in sight. 

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Almost as soon as home prices began their unprecedented climb in 2020, doomsayers began warning of a looming crisis. The housing market, they claimed, was a bubble destined to burst.

A German bank says it's preparing for the worst property crisis since '08 as commercial real estate distress spreads

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Deutsche Pfandbriefbank warned that the commercial real estate sector faces a crisis on par with the 2008 downturn.

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The 2008 housing bust suggests China's only halfway through its property crisis. Here's how the downturns compare.

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China's housing market turmoil has similarities to the 2008 US collapse.

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New rules for banks would be the 'end of real-estate finance as we know it,' MBA says

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Detroit, Michigan skyline.

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China's economic turmoil won't stop its manufacturing dominance

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Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission CMC, extends Spring Festival greetings to the country's military veterans when attending a gala held by the CMC for retired military officers of Beijing-based troops in Beijing, capital of China, Jan.

How millennials could give the suburbs a much-needed makeover

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Modern row houses in the suburbs of Delaware.
Modern row houses in the suburbs of Delaware.

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Tarek El Moussa has built a million-dollar real-estate empire thanks to HGTV. He said it took hitting rock bottom to get to where he is today.

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Tarek El Moussa.

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The commercial real estate crisis will prompt the Fed's first rate cut in May, top economist says

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