A Rent Control Renaissance Is Underway in the US—and It’s Sure to Make the Housing Shortage Worse
By Jack Elbaum If one needed any more proof that rent control laws suppress investment in new housing, then it is not necessary to look…
By Jack Elbaum If one needed any more proof that rent control laws suppress investment in new housing, then it is not necessary to look…
By Tyler Durden Today in “why, again, do we need inflation?” news, a brand new study by SmartAsset reveals that in several U.S. cities, earning as…
By Tyler Durden In the first quarter of this year, home foreclosures surged, as reported by property data firm Attom. Following a two-year lull, pandemic-related housing…
By Tyler Durden Big cities like Hong Kong or Los Angeles are well known for their expensive real-estate markets. But, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes,…
By Charles Hugh Smith And what happens next? Bubble symmetry: valuations fall at the same rate as they rose, declining back to the starting point…
By Michael Snyder Everyone can see the slow-motion train wreck that is unfolding right in front of our eyes, but nobody has a plan to…
By Michael Snyder What will our financial system look like once the 20 trillion dollar commercial real estate industry implodes? You might want to start…
By Tyler Durden Despite a recent softening in the US housing market, a combination of rising borrowing costs and still-high prices have put prospective first-time…
By Tyler Durden As the real estate market continues to soften amid rising rates and reduced appetites, home sellers are starting to toss in the…
By Tyler Durden Is this the first major commercial real estate domino to fall in the aftermath of Covid’s “work from home” revolution? The corporate…
By Michael Snyder The Federal Reserve giveth, and the Federal Reserve taketh away. In a desperate attempt to help the U.S. economy recover from the…
By Tyler Durden As a historic cold front blankets the continental US – because global warming of course – locking down hundreds of millions, and…
By Tyler Durden As the housing market continues to implode – marking a record drop in pending home sales last month amid canceled deals and…
By Chris Melore More than two-thirds of Americans find themselves spending more time at home now than two years ago – and the economy may…