Even with declining mortgage rates, the number of pending home sales fell last month to the lowest level on record, a National Association of Realtors report reveals. NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index shows that the number of pending home sales dropped 5.5% in July and was down 8.5% compared with a year earlier, reaching the … Read more
The U.S. is home to the majority of the world’s data centers, with more than 2,800. The closest nation after that is the United Kingdom, with less than 400, according to the Data Center Map. Data centers are the physical vertebrae of internet infrastructure, supporting cloud computing capabilities and artificial intelligence. The value of the … Read more
The median price per square foot in Manhattan, NY is $1,500, according to My Dolce Casa. Alexander Spatari | Moment | Getty Images Manhattan, New York is infamous for being expensive. The city consistently ranks as one of the world’s most costly places to live in. Purchasing a 500-square-foot condo in New York City can … Read more
Rooftops of homes in a gated residential community are seen in Pico Rivera, California, on Jan. 18, 2024. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Mortgage rates fell last week for the fourth straight week, but neither current homeowners nor homebuyers seemed particularly impressed. Total mortgage application volume rose just 0.5% last week compared … Read more
A recent CreditNews Research study ranked the slowest-selling metro areas in the U.S. The Good Brigade | Digitalvision | Getty Images Even as mortgage interest rates were rising, home prices reached the highest level ever on the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index. On a three-month running average ending in June, prices nationally … Read more
The company logo adorns the side of the BHP gobal headquarters in Melbourne on February 21, 2023. – The Australian multinational, a leading producer of metallurgical coal, iron ore, nickel, copper and potash, said net profit slumped 32 percent year-on-year to 6.46 billion US dollars in the six months to December 31. (Photo by William … Read more
If you’ve rented an apartment in the US in the last several years, you may have had the sense that the game was rigged: Prices creep up not only at your building but at others throughout the city, seemingly in lockstep. A new civil lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice today alleges that … Read more
“Non-life insurance space has been growing decently, especially the growth shown by companies like ICICI Lombard, etc, have been quite strong and that is also reflected in the stock price movements. Non-life has been doing better than life. And I think vis-à-vis the two spaces I think that is the better space to be in,” … Read more
A sign is posted in front of a home for sale on August 07, 2024 in San Rafael, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Closed sales of previously owned homes rose 1.3% in July compared with June to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 3.95 million units, according to the National Association of Realtors. That … Read more
A house under construction is seen between completed houses in a new development in Brambleton, Virginia on August 14, 2024. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Mortgage rates fell for the third week in a row last week, but the rush to refinance took a breather. Applications to refinance a home loan dropped 15% … Read more
