Housing affordability gap yawns
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Home buyers in England face the biggest affordability gaps in South West and London, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says.
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Business & money: Numbers of buyers unable to purchase first home slump to the lowest level since 1980
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U.S. housing starts fell 3.7 percent in November, with construction of single-family homes sliding to the lowest level in more than 16 years as builders scrambled to cope with a deep drop in sales.
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Comment is free: Yvette Cooper: If we don't take firm action now, we could see the gap between the housing haves and housing have-nots widen further.
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Ground-breaking on new U.S. homes last month fell to the slowest pace since 1991 and fewer building permits were issued than any time since 1993, according to government data released Thursday that points to a deepening housing crisis and heightened risk of recession.
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The combination of escalating real estate prices and largely stagnant incomes has contributed to the problem.
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As the housing boom continues, housing stocks are reporting record earnings. Neither is sustainable.
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Home ownership will remain out of reach for millions of Americans, despite slumping house prices, unless low-income wages grow faster, according to a national housing study released Monday.
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Homes priced out of buyers' reach and unsold inventory could derail analysts' predictions that the market is near its bottom.
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Turmoil in credit and housing has obscured a rise in prices.
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Property prices are falling at rates not seen since the 1990s housing recession, surveyors warn.
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Property prices are falling at rates not seen since the 1990s housing recession, warn surveyors.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - The gap between rich and poor  in Brazil is huge but when it comes to housing, they often live  side-by-side.
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The profitability gap is yawning wider, and Costco's on the wrong side.
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A drop in the pace of home sales was not enough to keep housing from getting even more expensive across Massachusetts last month.
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Housing starts fell to their lowest level in 12 years last month, while permits for new construction also declined, pointing to a further weakening of an already battered housing market.
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WASHINGTON - Over two decades, the income gap has steadily increased between the richest Americans, who own homes and stocks and got big tax breaks, and those at the middle and bottom of the pay scale, whose paychecks buy less.    The growing disparity is even more pronounced in this recovering economy...