Why the rent-vs-buy math is starting to turn
The gap between renting and buying a starter home just hit its narrowest point in over a year

The gap between renting and buying a starter home just hit its narrowest point in over a year

Buyers finally have leverage, but they aren’t using it, and that gap is now the central problem in purchase lending. Processing Content The typical home sells below list price in 41 out of the U.S. largest metros according to Best Interest Financial’s analysis of Redfin data. Price-drop activity declined compared to the previous year in…
A steady slide since spring The week-by-week decline has been consistent. Weekly job additions averaged 30,750 in early June, then fell to 24,250, 21,000, and 19,250 before dropping to the current 16,500 reading. That is a 60% drop in US private sector job growth since the peak in early May. The NER Pulse is produced…
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12:59 AM, 7th September 2026, 20 hours ago 9 A landlord has blasted the court system as “a fallacy” after his possession order arrived two weeks after his tenant was ordered to leave. Nottingham landlord Mick Roberts says the entire possession process took six months after he instructed his solicitor in March. His tenant was…
Losing the title deeds for an inherited home is a headache – and while tracking them down can be easy, it’s not always so straightforward. Title deeds are documents confirming who the legal owner of a property or piece of land is and trace the history of ownership over time. Deeds also usually include whether…
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