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Rent Went Up But So Did the Freebies (June Rent Report)
Rent growth accelerated. And yet, the share of listings with a concession remains elevated. The post Rent Went Up But So Did the Freebies (June Rent Report) appeared first on Zillow Research.
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New Home Sales Sink to Their Weakest Year-to-Date Pace Since 2017
There were 628,000 (SAAR) new single-family home sales nationwide in June. That’s 1.6% above the revised May rate of 618,000. Sales of newly built homes were 5.6% below the June 2025 estimate, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The median price of new houses sold was $398,300, down 2.7% from a year ago. The average…
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Nashville Sellers ‘Need to Pack Their Patience’ For a Housing Market That Now Strongly Favors Buyers
Nashville is the nation’s second-strongest buyer’s market with 129% more home sellers than buyers in June. In other words, Nashville has more than two home sellers for every buyer actively in the market. Years of steady homebuilding, fast home-price appreciation and higher mortgage rates have shifted Nashville’s housing market to favor buyers since the pandemic…
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Fire-Prone Parts of Rural Northern California Are Losing Residents, Bucking National Trend
Tuolumne County, CA, in the Yosemite foothills, lost more residents than any other fire-prone U.S. county in 2025. It was followed closely by Sutter County, also in rural Northern California. Just one-third of the country’s 308 fire-prone counties lost more residents than they gained, while the other two-thirds gained population. Pinal County, AZ, located between…
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What California can learn from LA’s hot mess era of governmental reforms
In a surprising role reversal, at least in image, the traditionally plodding L.A. County government looks more urgent and creative than L.A. City Hall.
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Why California prisons are using their own employees as human fire alarms
California spends tens of millions dollars every year paying prison employees to look for smoke and fire. Replacing fire alarms costs much more.
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California bill would let abuse victims use trauma as legal defense for violent crime
For the fourth year in a row, California lawmakers are weighing whether to give violent criminals the legal right to cite abuse in their legal defense.
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Facing $1.5B fire alarm bill, CA prisons go with human smoke detectors
Do you smell smoke? Inside California prisons, there are people assigned to do just that. As CalMatters’ Cayla Mihalovich explains, California’s 31 prisons have outdated, malfunctioning or inoperable fire alarm systems. But replacing all those systems, which include various detection devices, control panels and network connections, would cost $1.5 billion. To get around shelling out…
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The Summer 2026 Wall Street Journal/Realtor.com Housing Market Ranking
The summer 2026 ranking evaluates the 200 most populous U.S. metropolitan areas using a combination of housing market conditions and broader measures of economic health and livability.
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New Home Sales Rebound in June but Fall Short Year over Year
New home sales picked up slightly in June from an upwardly-revised but still rather weak May readout. The seasonally adjusted annual pace of new home sales reached 628,000, up 1.6% month over month but down 5.6% year over year. The market remains sluggish, with months of supply reaching 9.4–firmly in buyers’ territory.
