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Labor shortages and high cost of materials depress homebuilding, industry says

by Renata Sago
Jul 18, 2018
Builders are looking into long-term solutions.
A worker saws wood at Canal Crossing, a new luxury apartment community consisting of 393 rental units near the university city of New Haven on August 2, 2017 in Hamden, Connecticut. 
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Tax Bill 2017

Low-income and middle-class homeowners might see their tax refunds shrink come 2018

by Jana Kasperkevic
Feb 12, 2018
Here is why.
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Bond remains strong between Puerto Rican evacuees and those who stayed

by Renata Sago
Dec 22, 2017
Families, now divided between the mainland and the island, start new endeavors and try to preserve old ties.
Wireless internet at an extended-stay FEMA hotel in Orlando is the main way the Hernandezes keep in touch with family still in Puerto Rico.
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Tax changes could have big effect on housing

by Mitchell Hartman
Dec 19, 2017
The tax advantages of home ownership would likely be available to wealthier taxpayers, and high tax regions would take the biggest hit.
A bicyclist rides by a row of homes in San Francisco, California.
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Home prices rise much faster than wages and consumer prices

by Mitchell Hartman
Nov 28, 2017
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index hit a record high in August, and prices show no sign of moderating soon.
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Homeowners might have to start paying taxes on forgiven debt again

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Oct 13, 2017
If the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act isn't extended, homeowners with forgiven debt will have to pay taxes on that debt.
The Internal Revenue Service building in Washington DC.
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Just 34 percent of homes have regained pre-recession values. Is that a bad thing?

by Annie Baxter
May 3, 2017
There’s some stark research out today from the real estate research firm Trulia that shows an uneven recovery in the housing market. According to Trulia, only 34 percent of homes nationally have returned to their pre-recession value. Now that is, of course, a comparison back to the crazy times of the housing bubble. So how […]
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Why many Louisiana homeowners lack flood insurance

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Aug 17, 2016
Most Louisiana homeowners aren't covered.
Two people walk through a flooded street in Sorrento, Louisiana as an early morning fog blankets the area. 
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While major U.S. banks are cleaning up their books, the shadow banking system is dirtying its hands

by Dan Gorenstein
Apr 12, 2016
The role of non-banks has increased 400 percent in the past three years, one analyst says.
Goldman Sachs has reached a $5 billion settlement over the home mortgage crisis. 
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Homeowners, techies will be sad when Fed raises rates

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Sep 16, 2015
With rates near zero for so many years, who's benefited? Borrowers.
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