Author: Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY

Growth in spending on home improvements and repairs is expected to peak in 2022 with expenditures up 20% year-over-year.

Office occupancy is at 36% in 10 major cities across the country but events such as sports, restaurants and travel are close to pre-pandemic levels.

For potential entry-level homebuyers, the situation has gotten worse in the past year, thanks to rising inflation and mortgage rates ticking up.

While the NFL Rooney Rule requires an organization to include a diverse field of candidates, it’s doesn’t require them to hire a diverse candidate.

The demand for rental housing not only reduced vacancy rates to historic lows but also drove up rents, hurting low-income renters, a new report says.

The early reversal is being attributed to historically low levels of inventory and homebuyers trying to lock in mortgage rates before they go up.

An overheated housing market is pricing out many homebuyers. So people are starting to buy cheaper, souped-up mobile homes as an alternative.

These up-and-coming metro areas are close to expensive housing markets but have lower real estate prices in areas where jobs are growing.

A record surge in home prices will slow down as mortgage rates rise. But first-time homebuyers will still struggle to find houses in 2022.