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 April reading was flat ... “Thanks to lower interest rates, builders now have a positive view for future new home sales for the first time since May 2024,” said Carl Harris, chairman ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Skelly crawled out of his eternal resting place for the building materials and home decor chain's first-ever "Halfway to Halloween" sale and he brought some new equally massive skeletal friends.

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% ...

In April, Volvo sold almost 10,000 EX30s. The ramp-up of the new model doubled all-electric car sales year-over-year, while the EX30 became the best-selling Volvo in Europe. Volvo's plug-in car ...