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Lets talk about this with bess freedman, head of a real estate company. thank you so much for being with us. this is a big deal. lets start with home buyers. how concerning is this? >> its concerning. were worried about it and i think next week well see the fed raise rates again. and look, historically rates are still low but people have very short memories and theyre thinking about last year or what was. so theres less affordability for buyers. but a mortgage friend of mine told me buyers shoul...

Bruske: Workers cannot keep paying the price the Bank of Canada is imposing. A recession would mean thousands of Canadians thrown out of work and downward...

As the country’s rental crisis continues to worsen, renters are escaping homelessness’ threat by hiring a portable prefab home. Australia’s rental crisis has tightened its grip on tenants throu

Renters and Lower-Income Households Are More Financially Vulnerable to the Impacts of Rising Interest Rates...

Thats why a lot of them are voting republican this year. >> but to jasons point, its not just about donald trump, its about what democrats have done -- rachel: right. >> their ideas dont match up with african-americans or with hispanics. theres a lot of talk about recruiting minority candidates or women candidates. thats bogus. you have people who say i want to make my country and community better, i want to run for office, and what party matches my slams? -- my values? african-americans running...

Housing supply that they can buy that is within that affordability number. and for those people who can move, i think well probably see people moving to those places, or theyre going to have to pick neighborhoods where theyre able to have that affordability. because if they cant lock in now and they know that the inflations going to take rents even higher, thats even more uncertainty. so what were probably going to see is additional migration and then, of course, the tax the piece is huge too be...

Together. so its not like theyre just coming up with $50 million apartments every day that are brand new. neil: so lets talk about the rest of the world which is 99% of americans. theyre the ones facing these higher mortgage rates, and theyre the ones now even if they can afford a higher mortgage, they have to qualify at that rate. and then the sellers who are looking at what was once a go-go period to be a seller now saying maybe not. so they dont put their homes on the market or they pull them...

We take a look at a study by WalletHub that ranks 1300 small cities in America. Stratford had the highest ranking out of all the Connecticut cities included.

We take a look at a study by WalletHub that ranks 1300 small cities in America. Stratford had the highest ranking out of all the Connecticut cities included.

Columnist Weston Curnow argues that New York City Mayor Eric Adams claim that Kansas doesnt have a brand overlooks Kansas greatest strengths.