real estate

Dan Valdez, housing acquisitions manager for the nonprofit Brilliant Corners, checks out a recently leased property near downtown Los Angeles.

To tackle homelessness faster, LA has a kind of real estate agency for the unhoused

4:37pm October 24, 2023

by Jennifer Ludden

A Los Angeles program aggressively scouts vacant units and lobbies landlords in one of the country's tightest real estate markets. Some landlords offer up units even before putting them on the market.

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Former President Donald Trump (center) appears in court Monday in New York.

Politics & Government

Donald Trump's business fraud trial gets underway in New York

12:21pm October 02, 2023

by Ximena Bustillo

Former President Donald Trump and three of his children are accused of exaggerating the value of their real estate.

Millions of Americans receive little or no information about flood risk before they buy a house or sign a lease, leading families to put their safety, belongings and financial security in harm's way. New rules in four states aim to address the problem.

Residents of four states will get more information about flood risk to their homes

7:41am September 08, 2023

by Rebecca Hersher

Four states are strengthening rules that require home sellers and landlords to disclose information about whether a home has flooded in the past, or is likely to flood in the future.

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A maintenance worker sweeps the street in front of a row of new homes in Fairfax, Va., on Aug. 22. Sales of new homes are taking off as current homeowners are reluctant to sell their houses, because they would face a higher mortgage for their next one.

Economy

These are 5 ways surging mortgage rates are reshaping the housing market

5:00am August 25, 2023

by Scott Horsley

The housing market is showing a split: Sales of existing homes were down last month, but sales of newly built houses were up.

Cook employees Ryan and Shelby Bixler stand in front of the house they're buying from the company. They say they never could have afforded a new place like this at the full market price.

Would you live next to co-workers for the right price? This company is betting yes

9:13am May 02, 2023

Businesses like Cook Medical in Indiana say the housing shortage makes it harder to recruit and keep middle-income workers. Now, more companies are building places for employees to rent or even buy.

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Ayako Marsh Miranda says that as a Black woman, she represents 0.7% of all appraisers in the U.S. She'd like a federal mandate for anti-bias training in the field.

Racial bias often creeps into home appraisals. Here's what's happening to change that

5:01am March 13, 2023

by Jennifer Ludden

Black and Latinx homes are more likely to be undervalued by real estate appraisers, who are mostly older white men. New recruiting and technology aims to change how appraisals are done and by whom.

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Children ride scooters past a house for sale in Los Angeles. Home sales have slowed as mortgage rates have climbed.

2022 marked the end of cheap mortgages and now the housing market has turned icy cold

5:13am December 26, 2022

by Arezou Rezvani

The buying frenzy of a year ago is long gone. Home buyers have pulled away, sellers are holding back, and the whole housing market is locked in a deep freeze.

Laura Brunner is president and CEO of the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority. She calls the rise of institutional real estate investment a "predatory practice" that makes it harder for low-income and minority residents to buy an affordable home.

It's harder to buy a house. This city fought back by outbidding corporate landlords

5:00am November 03, 2022

by Jennifer Ludden

A Cincinnati agency says large investors are taking some of the most affordable homes off the market, exacerbating the racial wealth gap. It's now helping its new tenants buy the homes themselves.

"For Sale" sign on Meadowbrook Drive in Winston-Salem's Buena Vista neighborhood.

Housing

Triad housing market: How we got here and where we're headed

4:00pm September 19, 2022

by David Ford

New data shows the super-charged COVID-era housing market beginning to cool off in many regions across the country, including the Carolinas.

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Mike Noel wading in flooding. "I should have been advised of this before I bought this home," Noel wrote in an email to the park manager. "This is ridiculous."

National

From floods to slime: Mobile home residents say landlords make millions, neglect them

2:27pm August 21, 2022

Elderly homeowners in Florida are suing the billion dollar company that owns their mobile home park. Big companies are buying up parks around the country, but critics say residents pay the price.