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These 40 ‘overvalued’ housing markets could see 15% to 20% home price declines if a recession hits

These 40 ‘overvalued’ housing markets could see 15% to 20% home price declines if a recession hits

A housing bubble requires both a rush of speculators entering into the market and “overvalued” home prices. Oh, and the bust at the end, of course. Unlike the housing bubble that popped in 2008, the pandemic housing boom isn’t underpinned by a frenzy of speculation, Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi says. While home flipping has certainly ticked up during the pandemic, he says, we aren’t seeing the exuberance of the last bubble. So is the coast clear? Well, not so fast. While… Source link

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Lumber prices are tanking as rising interest rates means more Americans are finding it harder to buy a home

Lumber prices are tanking as rising interest rates means more Americans are finding it harder to buy a home

Lumber prices hit a nine month low as borrowing costs surge.Carolyn Cole/Getty Images Lumber prices are spiraling as red-hot house prices and the rising cost of mortgages is hitting affordability. Nearly 80% of National Housing Survey respondents reported now is the worst time to buy a home. It’s set to worsen as Americans foresee their financial situations deteriorating over the next year. Lumber prices have been on a steep decline as a combination of rising interest rates, record-high… Source link

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Former Missouri Fiji pledge Danny Santulli is back home but ‘blind’ and ‘unable to walk,’ attorney says

Former Missouri Fiji pledge Danny Santulli is back home but ‘blind’ and ‘unable to walk,’ attorney says

Former University of Missouri Fiji pledge Daniel Santulli is back in the care of his parents, but his condition hasn’t improved, the family’s attorney said Monday. Danny Santulli is back in his parents’ home in Minnesota after several months in a rehabilitation hospital in Colorado, said attorney David Bianchi. Santulli is in the care of his parents, but his condition hasn’t changed, Bianchi said. “He has massive brain damage,” Bianchi said. “He’s blind. He’s unable to walk or… Source link

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Elon Musk said working from home during the pandemic ‘tricked’ people into thinking they don’t need to work hard. He’s dead wrong, economists say.

Elon Musk said working from home during the pandemic ‘tricked’ people into thinking they don’t need to work hard. He’s dead wrong, economists say.

Elon Musk at the 2022 Met Gala.Andrew Kelly/Reuters Elon Musk said Covid-19 lockdowns “tricked people into thinking that you don’t actually need to work hard.” Working from home didn’t make workers less productive, three economists told Insider. The only constraint on productivity was when workers had children at home they needed to look after. Elon Musk is not a fan of remote work. In the early hours of Wednesday, Musk commented on a tweet which appeared to show an email from himself to Tesla… Source link

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Two-thirds of millennials ‘likely’ to buy home in next 2 years; BofA

Two-thirds of millennials ‘likely’ to buy home in next 2 years; BofA

The housing market has been hot for a couple of years now, and that’s unlikely to change any time soon as millennial demand remains red hot, according to new data from Bank of America (BAC). The 2022 Millennial Home Improvement Survey found that 67% of Generation Y responded that they were likely to buy in the next two years. “The #1 reason cited was an improving financial position, following the trend from the last few years of our survey,” BofA Global Research’s Senior Retail… Source link

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1 Red Sox fan catches 2 home runs in 5-HR Astros outburst

1 Red Sox fan catches 2 home runs in 5-HR Astros outburst

Nathan Eovaldi‘s bad day on Tuesday was one fan’s very good fortune. The Boston Red Sox entered the second inning at home holding a 1-0 lead over the Astros. They left trailing, 9-1 after a record-tying outburst sent five home runs into the Fenway Park stands en route to a 13-4 Houston romp. Eovaldi surrendered all five. One lucky fan caught two of them. Nathan Eovaldi didn’t have his best stuff against the Astros. (David Butler II/Reuters) Astros tee off on Eovaldi The inning started with a… Source link

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Google becomes home to priceless Timbuktu manuscripts

Google becomes home to priceless Timbuktu manuscripts

CNN  —  Today, it can feel like the sum of all human knowledge is only an internet search away. But until recently, some of the most important evidence of one of Africa’s most vibrant medieval cities was absent from the web. Located in the West African nation of Mali, the name Timbuktu has come to embody the idea of a distant place, but this city was once famed as a center of learning, religion… Source link

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, who recently announced employees can work from home forever, calls the office an ‘anachronistic form’ and ‘from a pre-digital age’

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, who recently announced employees can work from home forever, calls the office an ‘anachronistic form’ and ‘from a pre-digital age’

Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky.Kimberly White/Getty Images Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky recently announced the company will let employees work remotely forever without losing pay. In an interview for Time’s The Leadership Brief, he said “the office as we know it, is over.” He also explained why he thinks the three-day in-office hybrid model is flawed. For Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, working at the office is now a relic of the past. In an interview for Time’s The Leadership Brief published Sunday,… Source link

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Existing home sales dip for a second consecutive month

Existing home sales dip for a second consecutive month

Housing activity slowed for a second straight month in March. Existing home sales fell 2.7% to a seasonally adjusted 5.77 million units in March from a month earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Home sales fell across all regions in the U.S. from February. The NAR also revised February existing home sales downward to 5.93 million from 6.02 million. The number of sales was down 4.5% from the same month a year ago. The results came in better than analysts’… Source link

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Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, says he doesn’t own a home right now and rotates around friends’ spare rooms

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, says he doesn’t own a home right now and rotates around friends’ spare rooms

Elon Musk said in a video interview that he doesn’t own a home and is “staying at friends’ places.” The world’s richest man also doesn’t own yachts or take vacations, but has a plane to save time. Musk was responding to a comment about how many people criticize billionaires for their wealth. The world’s richest man said that he doesn’t own a home and crashes on friends’ couches. “I don’t even own a place right now, I’m literally staying at friends’ places,” Elon Musk said in a video interview… Source link

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