Moira Ritter
Writing about housing @costarnews. Formerly @mcclatchy @cnnbusiness. Always a Hoya. She/her
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5 days ago |
homes.com | Moira Ritter |Caroline Broderick
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, or so they say. For some real estate teams, though, that's especially true when a child follows in a parent's footsteps. Here are three stories of daughters who followed their mothers into the residential real estate world:Jennifer Puryear and her daughter, Alex Stevens, officially joined forces in the Austin, Texas, real estate market in 2022, but they say their partnership has been much longer than that.
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6 days ago |
homes.com | Moira Ritter
The mortgage rate roller coaster has come to a gentle but sure halt in recent weeks, but economists warn that more volatility could follow. The 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.76% as of Thursday, according to mortgage giant Freddie Mac, a buyer of loans from banks. It’s the same average as last week but significantly lower than the comparable week last year, when the average stood at 7.09%. The 15-year, fixed-rate mortgage eased, averaging 5.89%, Freddie Mac’s data showed.
Long before Harry Styles' band started jamming, this home was groovin' — down the street - Homes.com
6 days ago |
homes.com | Moira Ritter
During a recent open house in California, real estate agent Nina Kurtz turned on a jazz playlist featuring the likes of Billie Holiday and Chet Baker. It was as much to set the mood as it was to appease the 126-year-old house, she said. “The house has its own personality and its own spirit,” Kurtz said in an interview.
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1 week ago |
homes.com | Moira Ritter
After a roller coaster of a few weeks, mortgage rates seem to be reversing course. It's hard to know whether that trend will hold, though, economists say. As of Thursday, the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage average had clocked its second consecutive week of declines, landing at 6.76%, according to mortgage giant Freddie Mac, a buyer of loans from banks. The 15-year, fixed-rate mortgage, also eased, averaging 5.92%, Freddie Mac said.
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2 weeks ago |
homes.com | Moira Ritter
As the White House prepares the president's budget for Congress, sources say it's looking to make deep cuts to federal housing programs, The New York Times reported. If approved, the cuts would primarily focus on housing vouchers, including the Section 8 program that helps low-income tenants afford their rent for apartments, townhouses and single-family houses, those familiar with the matter said.
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I spent a week in LA with Altadena's top real estate agent. “I am a 64-year-old woman who had planned maybe to work much less at 72, and my fear is I'll be an older gal pressured still to earn a living selling real estate into my 80s,” she told me. https://t.co/YTWbNqoz8m
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Prosecutors charged Tal and Oren Alexander and Oren's twin, Alon, with operating a sex trafficking scheme. The Alexander Brothers once (a few months ago) ruled the ultra-luxury markets in NY, FL and elsewhere. Now, they could be facing life in prison. https://t.co/tsfZULmrvC