Homes

Home affordability is the best in 4 years, with median earners spending 27.4% of their incomes on median priced homes. This is down from 35.3% a year ago.
LOL! … In the end, the most important thing to remember when saving up to buy a house is that someone else will be paying for it.
U.S. homebuyers struggle with affordability, sellers delist, builders pull back, regions diverge. But this is stagnation, not crisis. These charts explain.
Working with private money lenders allow real estate investors to close deals in as little as eight days and avoid mountains of paperwork.

Homeowners who are selling cut prices on 27.4% of listings in July, and 37% of homebuilders cut prices by 5% in August.
"I think we can go ahead and call this a trendy up-and-coming artist mecca,” says developer after seeing colorful bench and bearded man in a flannel shirt walking by. 😂 via The Onion
If you put 10% down on a home, and assumed spending 30% of income on housing, here's income you need to buy a home in every U.S. state.
How far will Rocket and others go to deliver one-stop shop homebuying? These diagrams answer the question.
Combined Rocket & Mr. Cooper will originate $123.3 billion and service $2.1 trillion in mortgage loans for 10 million consumers

Rocket is committed to Redfin agents and loan officers as Redfin’s primary source of revenue.
Homebuilder tariffs would make U.S. home affordability even worse. Buyers of newly built homes already need to make $131,000 per year to qualify.
Adam Neumann’s new startup Flow is WeWork for housing, and also solves remote work isolation
The future of living has working integrated into it.
Dan Green of Homebuyer.com & Mike Simonsen of Altos Research discuss home inventory, sales, prices, and how realtor pay is changing

If buyer commissions are 3% on today's median prices for existing ($379,100) or newly built ($420,700) homes, that's $11,373 or $12,621 in extra closing fees for buyers.
NAR answers key questions in lawsuit settlement. How agents will get paid by home buyers & sellers, relevance of MLSs now, how NAR pays $418m settlement, etc.

