Meghan Malas

1 month ago | devicedaily.com | Meghan Malas |Lance Lambert

Housing market is squeezed by spiked building costs—and tariffs could make it worse  February 03, 2025 Homebuilders ask Trump to exempt building materials from tariffs on Canada and Mexico, citing their “harmful effect on housing affordability.”BY Meghan Malas and Lance LambertWant more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter.

2 months ago | fastcompany.com | Meghan Malas

BY Meghan Malas2 minute readWant more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Speaking before the U.S. Senate this month, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that a decade or more down the road, homeowners in some parts of the country won’t be able to find home insurance. “Both banks and insurance companies are pulling out of coastal areas or areas where there are a lot of fires.

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Meghan Malas

2 days agoThe Trump administration says cuts are coming to NOAA. Without its weather forecasting, insurance companies may refuse to provide coverage in high-risk areas. NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is most well known for the National Weather Service, providing forecasting that …

2 months ago | fastcompany.com | Meghan Malas

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Pandemic era adoption of work-from-home and hybrid work models has left many office spaces unused, triggering a surge in expired leases and vacant office buildings. Simultaneously, the residential housing market remains resilient, with the number of active homes for sale in January 2025 sitting 25% below the levels recorded in January 2019.

2 months ago | propertychronicle.com | Meghan Malas

Pandemic era adoption of work-from-home and hybrid work models has left many office spaces unused, triggering a surge in expired leases and vacant office buildings. Simultaneously, the residential housing market remains resilient, with active homes for sale in January 2025 sitting 25% below the levels recorded in January 2019. It’d only make sense that many of these offices over time get converted into condos and apartments, right?