David Robinson
Editor, Buffalo Next at Buffalo News
Buffalo Next Editor at The Buffalo News. Syracuse University. grad. New Hampshire born and raised.
Articles
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1 week ago |
buffalonews.com | David Robinson
Here’s why it’s so tough to be a homebuyer these days. Home prices across the Buffalo Niagara region have doubled over the past decade. Mortgage rates, which were at historic lows during the 2010s, have doubled since the pandemic, slapping would-be homebuyers with a painful double-whammy. But there’s another factor in play, too: Incomes across the region are growing much slower than home prices are rising. That widening gap offers the clearest sign of just how much the housing market has shifted.
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1 week ago |
buffalonews.com | David Robinson
There are some positives – and some signs for concerns – in the Buffalo Niagara job market. First the good part. The local job market is holding up amid all the uncertainty caused by the Trump administration’s tariff policies and the fears that it could spark a new surge in inflation. Those fears, for the most part, haven’t manifested themselves, at least so far. Inflation remains subdued. Consumer confidence, which plummeted in late winter, has started to improve.
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2 weeks ago |
buffalonews.com | David Robinson
Wages aren’t rising as rapidly as they used to across Buffalo Niagara. The average annual wage across the region grew by 3.9% last year, which was good for workers because it outpaced the 2.9% rise in consumer prices during 2024. But it was the smallest increase since 2019 and was the first time in the last five years that average annual wages didn’t rise by at least 4%.
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2 weeks ago |
stargazette.com | David Robinson
Average monthly health insurance costs for 140,000 New Yorkers currently relying on a key state-run marketplace health plan would spike 38% for a couple, or about $228. About 100,000 New Yorkers who purchase coverage in the state-run individual commercial market but do not qualify for tax credits would see a 4.3% rate increase if the bill gets approved.
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3 weeks ago |
buffalonews.com | David Robinson
For decades, owning a home in the Buffalo Niagara region wasn’t an investment. It was a way to own a place to live. Not a path to build wealth. But that’s changed, especially over the past two decades, and especially over the last five years. Homeowners in the Buffalo Niagara region actually have been building wealth through their homes at a much faster pace than the national average since 2007, according to new home price data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
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