Inflation rose at an annual rate of 2.7% in December, leading many to believe the Fed will hold rates steady this month. But if market conditions cool, a March rate cut may be in the cards
But an overall weakening labor market could include a silver lining for real estate as it puts downward pressure on mortgage rates
Numbers suggest that the labor market cooled off much faster than previously thought. The Federal Reserve now has a case to make a bigger cut in interest rates come September
Inflation rose 0.4% in February to an annual rate of 3.2%, with shelter and gas costs contributing substantially to the uptick, according to the the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index
Investment expert and team leader Jen Berbas looks at how changes to the Consumer Price Index's rent measure offer insight into the direction of consumer housing costs
Real estate didn't shed an unusual number of workers in August. But there are fewer jobs than it once seemed. Intel explains the paradox
Home transactions may be down, but you wouldn't know it from most brokerage payrolls. Real estate hiring churned along in July, according to new data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Despite having cooled for more than a year, the median asking rent in the US remained just $24 below its all-time high as of June 2023, Redfin reported
Builders and residential contractors added nearly 60,000 jobs in June — about 11,000 more than expected for this time of year, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
May was a strong hiring month for the US as a whole. But in a down market, real estate didn't quite keep pace, according to new jobs data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Employers posted another hot hiring month as the spring housing market picked up, exceeding strong overall numbers, according to data released Friday by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
The start of spring usually marks more brokerage transactions and ramped-up construction schedules. But payroll growth was weaker in March, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data
The real estate industry got 2 kernels of good news in the latest jobs numbers from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Despite big rounds of layoffs by companies like Compass and Anywhere, payrolls throughout the real estate industry held firm in January, according to new US Bureau of Labor Statistics' report
The once-frantic pace of consumer price growth has been slowing for months, which may bode well for buyers' budgets — and financing, according to new data from Bureau of Labor Statistics