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CUPERTINO A Cupertino retail center near the Apple tech hubs has been sold to a New York City-based insurance titan for more than $90 million by the family foundation of a legendary Bay Area real estate firm.Homestead Square shopping center has been bought by an affiliate controlled by MetLife Investment Management, according to documents filed on June 1 at the Santa Clara County Recorder's Office.

Real Estate Non-New Englanders are flocking to the Granite State to buy a slice of heaven within an hour of Boston, the beach, and the mountains.A new real estate report ranks two New Hampshire cities among the nation's most coveted places to buy a house.On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal and Realtor.com

Real Estate If you're a homeowner and haven't faced a big repair bill yet, just wait.If you're a homeowner and haven't faced a big repair bill yet, just wait.Even in the best-maintained homes, stuff will wear out or break.Budgeting for these inevitable bills isn't always easy.One commonly cited rule of thumb - to save 1% to 4% of your home's value each year for maintenance and repairs - can give homeowners sticker shock as real estate prices soar.

There is no question that families have been really struggling to cover basic needs like food, rent, and transportation.There's been so much fluctuation between inflation and issues with supply chains that finding anywhere to save a little money each month can feel impossible.A new report from gives a snapshot of how costly keeping a roof over our heads has become, and a released a map of monthly changes in rent.

Homebuilders, whose sentiment hit the midpoint mark of 50 earlier this month for the first-time since July 2022, have yet another reason to celebrate.The sales pace of new homes has also increased for the fifth consecutive month, according to data published on Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

With economic uncertainty and supply chain issues plaguing the industry, homebuilders pulled back last month.Homes were started at an estimated annual pace of 1.309 million in January, down 4.5% month over month, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

A new epidemic modeling approach developed by Santa Fe Institute researchers Alexander Mercier, Samuel Scarpino and Cristopher Moore could significantly accelerate pandemic simulations.The researchers used a sparsification technique to identify the most critical network links for disease proliferation.

Tom Sawyer, an eight-term Democratic congressman from Ohio whose concern that the 1990 census had missed more than two million Black Americans spurred the federal government to improve its subsequent population counts, died on May 20 in a nursing facility in Akron.He was 77.His wife, Joyce (Handler) Sawyer, said the cause was Parkinson's disease.

Aurora lost another 1.47% of its population between 2020 and 2022, according to new U.S. Census Bureau figures released recently.The numbers from the bureau's Population Estimates Program now show the city with a population of 177,866 as of July 2022.That is 2,660 people down from the 180,197 people the Census Bureau put Aurora at after the decennial census in 2020.

Friday, May 19, 2023 by Andrew Weber, KUT
Four of the top five fastest-growing cities in the U.S. are in Texas, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.Georgetown tops the list, as it did last year, with Kyle and Leander in the No. 3 and 4 spots, respectively.Little Elm, north of Dallas, placed fifth on the annual list.

It turns out high-income people are also fleeing the state - a new twist in the California exit.That should worry ruling liberal Democrats who love to tax wealthy people and spend their money, especially on social programs.Some golden geese are taking flight.For years, once-burgeoning California has been hemorrhaging population.

The man charged in the shooting of an unarmed Black man last month has resigned from the Shreveport, Louisiana, police department.Former Officer Alexander Tyler, 23, resigned from the force late last week, according to Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux.Tyler had been on administrative leave since being charged with negligent homicide after the February 3 shooting death of Alonzo Bagley.

After pulling back at the start of the year, homebuilders jumped back in during February as homebuyer demand and builder confidence trended upward.Homes were started at an estimated annual pace of 1.45 million in February, up 9.8% month over month, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

In a country with more than 330 million people, there are only 70,000 new homes available for sale today in the U.S. housing market.And with total active house listings in America near all-time lows, that is all we have for completed units for sale.The number of new homes doesn't ever get into the millions, but we are still working our way back to the pre-COVID levels of 80,000 to 100,000.

After falling 0.8% in March, housing starts were back up again in April, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).Home starts checked in at an estimated annual pace of 1.401 million in April, up 2.2% month over month.

If there's one sector of the economy that benefits from the very low levels of total housing inventory, it's the homebuilders, but for a reason you might not think.If national housing inventory were back to normal, we would have 2 to 2.5 million active listings, and these active listings would be direct competition for the builders.

To combat higher mortgage rates, builders have been cutting prices and buying down rates to move product.They still have a lot of work to do here, so we shouldn't expect anything good to come from the housing permits side of the economy in 2023.New home sales
From : Sales of new single-family houses in January 2023 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 670,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

My grandson has been married three times and has two children: a baby boy with his third wife and an 8-year-old daughter from his first marriage.He refuses to have any contact with his daughter or pay any child support to his first wife.I am hurt and angry by his abandonment of his child!I have not seen his new baby yet, nor do I want to.

New home sales increased in December - a sign that new residential sales have continued to rebound in recent months.Last month, new home sales increased by 2.3% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 616,000, according to data published by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Tell Us Tell us where you'd like to live.As it turns out, Bostonians who left the city for Portland, Maine, may have been part of a larger trend.U.S. News and World Report slotted Portland higher than any other place in New England in its 2023-24 ranking of the 150 Best Places to Live, released today.

Renting Nationally, the Hub landed at 10th on RentCafe's list of millionaire hotspots.The number of Boston renters earning more than $150,000 a year doubled between 2015 and 2020, according to a report listing database RentCafe released Friday, but another Massachusetts city saw a whopping 125% increase.

Lobster tacos, vegan curry chicken and rice and peas, loaded mac and cheese with smoked Gouda, crab and crawfish - you know you're going to be eating well at Black Restaurant Week in the Bay Area.This year, the national event is being celebrated around the Bay by dozens of restaurants, bakeries, pop-ups, food trucks and virtual kitchens.

First-time home buyers around the country are struggling to amass a down payment in this high-inflation economy.But there may be hope.For those who work remotely or are open to relocating, a recent study by Rocket Homes can help find a new locale.The study compared 383 major metropolitan areas to find the best ones for home buyers with household incomes of $65,000 just below the median national household income of $70,784, the most recently reported figure from the U.S. Census Bureau.

First-time home buyers around the country are struggling to amass a down payment in this high-inflation economy.But there may be hope.For those who work remotely or are open to relocating, a recent study by Rocket Homes can help find a new locale.The study compared 383 major metropolitan areas to find the best ones for home buyers with household incomes of $65,000 just below the median national household income of $70,784, the most recently reported figure from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Congratulations: Valentine's Day is over, you're still single, and you're fine with it.Well, maybe except for the rent.Single renters pay a premium over couples and roommates who split expenses (even when the roommates have separate bedrooms).Moreover, a recent report from Moody's Analytics showed that the typical American renter is rent burdened (paying 30 percent or more of income for rent), making things particularly rough right now for singles.

Parents are having a difficult time finding and affording childcare.They're turning to a variety of options to get by, including nanny sharing and co-parenting.But most of these options come with their drawbacks.When 27-year-old Brittany Wilson-DeMarco began looking for daycare for her two-year-old son last year, the most affordable option she could find cost $1,200 per month.

When the 30-year fixed rate dropped for the third straight week in late March, homebuyers responded, giving a boost to mortgage applications.And, following investors' rush into bonds after the recent bank failures earlier this month, yields moved even lower last week - and mortgage rates followed.Mortgage applications increased 2.9% week over week on a seasonally adjusted basis for the week ending March 24, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).

New home sales continued to rise in February, jumping 1.1% from January to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 640,000 homes, according to data published on Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD).On a year-over-year basis, however, new home sales are still down 19.0%.

US home building jumped higher in February, turning around after five consecutive months of falling even as mortgage rates were climbing last month.Housing starts, a measure of new home construction, rose by 9.8% in February from January.But that's still down 18.4% from a year ago, according to data released Thursday by the Census Bureau.

New home sales started off 2023 on a positive note, rising 7.2% from December to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 670,000 homes, according to data published by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD) on Friday.This marks the second consecutive month of increases and the strongest sales pace since March 2022.

New home sales rose in January from December, as mortgage rates eased off their highs of the past year at the start of 2023.Sales of newly constructed homes were up 7.2% in January from December, but fell 19.4% from a year ago, according to a joint report from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and the US Census Bureau.

Bloomberg photo by Luke Sharrett.Sales of new U.S. homes fell in September, resuming a downtrend as decades-high mortgage rates push would-be buyers out of the market.Purchases of new single-family homes decreased 10.9% to a 603,000 annualized pace following an unexpected gain in August, government data showed Wednesday.

Housing starts, which include construction of both new single-family and multifamily residences, rose 9.8% month over month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,450,000 units, the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said in a press release.Year over year, starts were down 18.4%.

Were you born in Michigan?Then your spouse probably was too!Michiganders appear loath to marry folks born outside their pleasant peninsulas: Their rate of interstate marriage is the lowest in the nation, our analysis of Census Bureau data shows.It's a regional trend.Data from 2017 to 2021 shows the most insular states, maritally speaking, lap up against the Great Lakes.

To the Massachusetts real estate market, the following data below is compiled of current and historical data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.The data will cover homeownership rates, vacancies, foreclosures, mortgages, new housing construction, and manufacturing, as well as housing characteristics such as the median age, square feet, and the number of rooms for homes in Massachusetts.

MANOR, Texas The city of Manor is gearing up to welcome two new hotels, according to a report from the Austin Business Journal.Citing filings with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, the report states that Houston-based Ultra Hospitality LLC is in the planning phase for the pair of hotels on a 6.1-acre lot in western Manor.

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed the nature of work for many in Alabama, and for some altogether eliminated a commute.And in one Alabama county, more than one in every 10 workers were still remote deep into the pandemic.In Shelby County, a suburban county south of Birmingham, 11% of workers during the five-year period ending in 2021 worked from home, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

AUSTIN, Texas  The City of Austin ranks at No. 25 for loneliest city in the U.S. and is only getting lonelier, a new study reports.A study by Chamber of Commerce, a company that helps small businesses with reviews and products, used data from the U.S. Census and found which cities had the highest percentage of people living alone.

AUSTIN, Texas  Austin renters could soon see relief in monthly rates, according to a recent study by Apartment List, a research firm that studies rent prices across the U.S. Overall, rent in Austin is still up about 24.7% since the start of the pandemic.But in November, prices went down by about 1.2%, compared to a 1% decrease nationally.

AUSTIN, Texas  Dozens of new Austin police officers were sworn in during a graduation ceremony at the Bannockburn Church in South Austin on Friday.The commission of the 63 men and women, from two cadet classes, helps the Austin Police Department (APD) move closer to representing the community it serves, especially the Asian American community.

OAKLAND  A housing development with hundreds of homes, many of them affordable, is being eyed in downtown Oakland next to a busy freeway, plans on file with city officials show.An estimated 272 homes  and as many as 300  would be built at 430 Broadway in Oakland, according to a proposal by a development alliance that was filed with city planners.