• More Than 1,000 Schools Closed—and Home Values Could Take the Hit,Allaire Conte

    More Than 1,000 Schools Closed—and Home Values Could Take the Hit

    More than 1,000 public schools across 700 communities closed last year, according to new data—shuttering a prized neighborhood amenity and potentially putting nearby home values at risk. Just ask Virginia Morris. She and her family moved to their neighborhood in Oro Valley, AZ, because they saw the

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  • Immigration Helped Revive Springfield—Now Its Recovery Is at Risk,Allaire Conte

    Immigration Helped Revive Springfield—Now Its Recovery Is at Risk

    “The word I hear most often about the Haitian community right now is 'panicked,'” Michael E. McClelland, a longtime Springfield resident, tells Realtor.com®. In recent years, the Ohio city had begun gaining what it had lacked for decades: people. Thousands of Haitian immigrants made homes there, too

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  • Fed Researchers Offer a New Homeownership Metric—and It Drops the Rate to 53%,Tristan Navera

    Fed Researchers Offer a New Homeownership Metric—and It Drops the Rate to 53%

    The Federal Reserve of Minneapolis has proposed a new way of measuring homeownership that would change the current view of the housing landscape. In a paper released earlier this month, researchers suggested that homeownership in America should be measured not by the share of homes where the owner i

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