How expensive is the housing market?

When asked 'how expensive' a housing market is, most people will refer to the median price or median value of properties in the market. The median price is a perfectly valid and meaningful way to get a quick feel for the pricing of a typical house or unit in a given region, however the median doesn't give
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What would you do with a multi-million dollar fortune? Banking heir Alan Wilzig used his to build a $3 million racetrack in his backyard. Wilzig, 52, is unveiling a 1.15-mile-long, lobster-claw-shaped, bidirectional Formula One track on his Upstate New York estate in in the Hudson Valley town of Taghkanic
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Bitcoin is on its way to being worth $10,000 per coin. Currently, the cryptocurrency is up 800% compared to the beginning of the year, when it was priced at $968 per coin. As of this evening, the price was a few hundred dollars shy of $10,000. This new high comes just seven days after bitcoin broke
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We'll add more market news briefs throughout the day. Check back to read the latest. Most recent market news. Monday, November 27. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Census Bureau: New residential sales statistics for October 2017. Sales of new
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N early half of experts polled by global property consultants Colliers International suggest the economic outlook and likely rising interest rates are the two most important factors for Hong Kong investors wanting to make investment decisions for 2018. The property firm polled 35 leading investors and
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In a ceremony honoring the Native American World War II veterans known as the “Navajo Code Talkers,” President Trump referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as “Pocahontas,” a slur he frequently employs about the outspoken Democrat. The joke came after days of criticism by Warren over the
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Home sale prices rose modestly in October in greater Hartford and across the state, two recent reports show, but sales in the Hartford area were stronger than the state as a whole. In greater Hartford, the median sale price of a single-family house — where half the sales are above, half below — rose 2.6
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Our ATM located behind the bank in Robinson will be down for maintenance on November 28th & 29th. The ATM at the Barn Plaza will be available. Thank you for your cooperation and understand during this time. To see a listing of our other ATM's in the area please click on the link below. Locations.
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Elon Musk-led SpaceX has raised $100 million by selling shares, in an extension to a financing round earlier this year that raised up to $350 million, a regulatory filing showed on Monday. SpaceX's funding round in July had valued the rocket maker at about $21 billion, according to news reports. In May
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And there are two different tax reform plans currently being debated, each of which has a different impact on the mortgage interest deduction. Will MID
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The fight over who's leading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau now that the agency's former director, Richard Cordray, officially stepped
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A statement from the official residence of Charles, Prince of Wales, confirmed what had been speculated: that Prince Harry and Markle are engaged and will marry this spring. “His Royal Highness and Ms. Markle became engaged in London earlier this month,” it said. “Prince Harry has informed Her
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The FHA is the government version of privately insured mortgages available in the conventional market, helping low down payment borrowers qualify for home financing. It's important to preserve what's working and reform the areas that aren't as we continue to promote greater opportunities for all
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The presentation on the topic “Utilising Ever-changing IT Developments in Real Estate/Estate Agency Practice” by Minister Supa Mandiwanzira read by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of ICT, Postal and Courier Services, Dr Eng S M Kundishora at the Real Estate Institute of Zimbabwe(REIZ)
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Poloz's main message at his last Financial System Review in June — which came just before his first rate increase in seven years — was that despite an unsustainable jump in Toronto home prices earlier this year and the consequent rise in debt levels, the financial system's resilience was actually
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If you have a credit card, mortgage, payday loan or do any type of consumer financing, expect to be hurt by President Donald Trump's plan to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a controversial but effective industry watchdog. Right now, the focus is on the unusual situation of two people
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration's pick as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Monday that the agency would be “dramatically different” under new leadership, even as a federal judge declined to decide yet on the legality of the appointment. Mick Mulvaney, who
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Ginger Cunnigham, the owner of Blue Ridge Title Company, was arrested and charged in November 2017 after officials say she sold false title insurance policies. Investigators believe up to 1,000 consumers could be affected by this case, involving up to $97 million worth of property. (Photo credit: WLOS
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Singapore based lending service Fast Money PTE Ltd recently had a press meet at their office, where the management announced the relaxed terms of lending. They also discussed the lending process and things people can expect from their cash loan services. Fast Money PTE Ltd is a renowned
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SEB's Swedish housing-price indicator, which measures the difference between those who expect house prices to rise and those who expect them to drop, has sunk to its lowest level since 2013, with only 43 percent of households now believing prices will rise in the coming year, compared with 66
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