LOS ANGELES--Hoping to buy a home that fits your needs and budget in the next few weeks?... All told, sales of previously occupied homes reached 6.1 million last year and were up 8.5% from 2020, according to the NAR. The sizzling housing market intensified a long-running demand-supply imbalance, however.... Applications for building permits, which can forecast future building activity, rose 9.1% to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 1.87 million units in December....

GEORGE TOWN: Most property developers in Penang are expected to either hold back or launch fewer

nationally remains near record lows, fueling fierce competition among buyers vying for fewer homes

., Thursday, Dec.... Prices for used cars have soared so high, so fast, that buyers are being increasingly

quickly become the preferred choice for many buyers vary.... They range from the higher prices of

DETROIT--A couple of months ago, a woman paid a visit to Jeff Schrier's used car lot in Omaha, Nebraska.... Schrier said the woman was stunned."' That's what I get for$ 7, 500?... The vehicles had far more age or mileage on them than she had expected for something to replace a car that had been totaled in a crash. The woman eventually settled on a 2013 Toyota Scion with a whopping 160, 000 miles on it....

David Cruise discusses artificial Christmas trees with a salesperson at the Balsam Hill showroom in Burlingame, Calif.... Extreme weather and supply chain disruptions have reduced supplies of both real and artificial trees this season.... " It's a double whammy--weather and supply chain problems are really hampering the industry," said Jami Warner, executive director of the American Christmas Tree Association, an industry trade group....

, indicating the market has become a ghost site without buyers or visitors except a small number.... Under

KUALA LUMPUR: Only 129 cases or 0.47% of the 27, 299 new Covid-19 cases reported on Saturday were of Categories 3 to 5, says Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.He said the majority of cases – 27, 170 or 99.53% – was in Categories 1 and 2. The latest figure brings the cumulative number of cases in Malaysia to 3, 395, 170.“ Of the 129 cases in Categories 3, 4 and 5, 32 were individuals who were unvaccinated or had yet to complete their vaccination, 71 were fully vaccinated but

THE process of consultation with allies is underway.... Since becoming the face of the unity government, the PML-N has rapidly lost the goodwill it spent years building up while in opposition.... After Finance Minister Miftah Ismail’s press conference on Sunday, it is clear that while the PM and his kitchen cabinet are aware of the economic crisis, they look to their party’s leadership in London for ‘guidance’ on policy matters....