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What does the existing home market look like, especially with mortgage rates rising?

by Stephanie Hughes

Mar 18, 2022

The housing market for homes that have been occupied before is already tight and may become even more competitive.

Housing strategist Majora Carter says that the trend is especially pronounced in low-income neighborhoods, where private equity firms and other companies use all-cash deals to rapidly snap up housing.

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Are we too attached to old homes?

by Amy Scott and Sean McHenry

Jan 31, 2022

Housing supply has been an issue for years. Could Americans' love for old homes be part of the problem?

"You can find architecture critics in the early 20th century talking about how brownstones are these cheap, ticky-tacky, repetitive developments," said M. Nolan Gray. "and if you look over Brooklyn, right, there are a lot of these things, and they look all basically the same."

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