Sales of newly built homes dropped in April as prices and interest rates rose. The median price of a new home sold in April was $433,500, 4% higher than it was in April 2023. The average rate on ...

The numbers: Sales of newly built homes in the U.S. dipped in August, as home buyers pulled back in the face of high interest rates and home prices. Sales of newly built homes in the U.S. fell 4.7 ...

Buyers are in a rush to purchase before their stamp duty bills rise from 1 April next year, making chain-free homes an ...

“Rates have rebounded since then, however, which lends support to our view that new home sales will not rise much further.” ...

Other items up for auction include the American flag that covered Abraham Lincoln’s coffin following his assassination.

The Chancellor has decided not to continue with an extension to stamp duty concessions that were put in place by the last ...

75,000 copies. Third Culture Cooking: Classic Recipes for a New Generation by Zaynab Issa (Abrams, $35.00; ISBN 9781419770074). 60,000 copies. Crash Landing by Annie McQuaid (Avon, 18.99 paper ...

Retail sales fell by much more than expected in April as heavy rain kept shoppers at home. Sales volumes fell by 2.3% from the month before. Analysts had expected a drop of about 0.5%. Clothing ...

All By Myself: (But Sometimes I Need a Little Help!) by Elizabeth Everett, illus. by Shelley Hanmo (Soaring Kite, $18.99; ISBN 978-1-958372-72-2). All the Stars Align by Gretchen Schreiber ...

Tuesday's online auction grossed $417,250 with an average sale price of $16,990. Widden Stud went home with the auction's top prize, snagging April Vintage for $180,000. The 3-year-old daughter of ...

In April, new passenger car registrations in Germany increased by 20% year-over-year to 243,102. During the first four months of the year, the number of registrations amounted to 937,887, up 8% ...

Last month was also very positive for Subaru EV sales, which more than doubled to a new monthly record of 1,456 (up 141% year-over-year). In April, Subaru Solterra sales were higher than in all of ...