As state senators clashed over the best way to increase New Hampshire’s housing supply Thursday, much of the debate hinged on a preference: the carrot or the stick. Some Republicans argued the carrot works well: Cities and towns should be incentivized to pass zoning ordinances that make housing construction easier,…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Economic optimism among chief financial officers dropped in the first quarter of 2025 as a result of tariffs and broader uncertainty. That’s according to the CFO Survey, a collaboration between Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the Federal Reserve Banks of Richmond and Atlanta. The CFO Survey was…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Purchase applications saw a slight uptick even as overall mortgage applications decreased 2.0% from last week, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending March 21, 2025. The index decreased 2.0% on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier,…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Last week was the ICE Experience Conference in Las Vegas. Walking the exhibit hall, I was goaded by a vendor to spin the roulette wheel for a chance to win a pair of Ray Bans. Alright, 36:1 odds aren’t great. A minute into the wheel spinning, the vendor offered…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Elon Musk and his team in the White House reportedly plan to lay off a substantial portion of employees in the U.S. Department of Treasury as part of their ongoing effort to reduce the federal workforce. In a court filing Tuesday surfaced by Bloomberg Law, the Treasury’s Deputy Assistant…
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