Housing & Real Estate

Rents, mortgages, home prices and commercial real estate, and what they mean for you.

Housing and real estate here is rents, mortgages, home prices and commercial real estate, and what each one does to your budget and to your business. I managed shopping centers before this, so I know what happens to retail tenants, landlords and leases when the numbers stop working. Recent posts: property tax bills that keep rising even after you pay off your mortgage and homebuilder confidence hitting a 14 year low as mortgage rates pass 7%. Premiums are now a bigger line than taxes on a lot of homes, and that side is in Insurance & Risk.