This retired firefighter battles Detroit’s home repair crisis

Resilience in the D is a five-part series launched to commemorate BridgeDetroit’s fifth anniversary and recognize Detroiters who have made a difference in their communities. Selections were made based on resident nominations.

Gary Ringer, a retired firefighter, circled a one-story

How Carney and Poilievre each plan to solve Canada’s housing crisis and the Home of the Week: Canadian real estate news for the week of Oct. 10

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Home of the Week, Cassiar Cannery, Lot 44, Cassiar Drive, Port Edward, B.C.Sotheby’s International Realty Canada

This week, realtors in Vancouver are calling for the end of the federal foreign buyer ban, but doubts

This Week’s Top Stories: Canadian Real Estate Sellers Pull Listings, & The Capital Flight Crisis

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories.

Canadian Real Estate

Canadian Economy Hits An Iceberg—Government Spending Soars

It’s too early to use the R-word to describe the Canadian economy, but it seems inevitable. Real GDP contracted 0.4%

This Frustrated Real Estate Agent’s Rant About The Real Cause Of The Housing Crisis Is So Spot On

Zachary Foust is a 31-year-old real estate agent who has been working in Delaware for over eight years, but he’s been going viral on TikTok for more than just selling homes. In a recent video, he shared a passionate

WSU hosts leadership forum to address home-repair crisis in Detroit, U.S. – Today@Wayne

Wayne State University became a hub for housing activism as it hosted the Richard C. Van Dusen Urban Leadership Forum at the McGregor Conference Center last week. The event brought together philanthropists, academics, policymakers and affordable-housing advocates for a daylong

Analyst warns of a housing market crisis in the South

The American South is teetering on the edge of a housing market crisis, according to real estate analyst Nick Gerli.

The post-2020 rush to build new homes in states like Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas has led to a glut

Ontario Leads Canada’s Real Estate Cooldown As Sales Fall To Crisis Levels: RBC

Canadian real estate markets are softening as higher rates begin to weigh on virtually all markets. RBC warns October data reveals falling existing home sales and rising inventory. The combination has resulted in the price decline for a typical home

Commercial real estate bubble will burst, says top economist who predicted 2008 housing crisis

While a lot has recovered and rebounded since the pandemic (think Thanksgiving travel and gathering en masse), work environments seem forever changed. The pandemic emptied office buildings as we once knew them, and central business districts suffered. Commercial real estate …

Real Estate Crisis Triggers New Alarms Over China’s Shadow Banks

An accountant in northeast China deposited her life savings and received a letter guaranteeing her investment in a trust firm. Workers at a state-owned utility pooled money from friends and relatives believing that their investments were backed by the government.

The housing crisis plus other letters, Aug. 18: ‘The best thing I can do to provide for my children in the distant future is to buy real estate and rent it out’

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A for sale sign is displayed outside a home in Toronto in December, 2021.CARLOS OSORIO/Reuters

Pain points

Re “Bank of Canada stuck wondering why interest rate hikes have not been enough to tame inflation”