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Wall Street Journal
23-05-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
First-Time Home Buyers Downsize Amid Tight Supply, High Interest Rates
As the housing market goes through the critical spring selling season, size matters. Buyers who are trying to purchase their first home but find themselves boxed out of their dream because of persistently high prices and mortgage rates, as well as low supply, are making certain concessions, just as builders are doing what it takes to close deals.
Wall Street Journal
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
New York City Ballet Spring 2025 Review: A Rewarding Romp Through the Past
New York For only the second time in my 5 1/2 decades attending New York City Ballet's spring seasons at Lincoln Center, the troupe presented no world premieres. Of the 26 ballets in rotation through June 1, only one work—'When We Fell,' by Kyle Abraham—qualifies as a premiere, specifically a stage premiere, since it offers choreography initially shown digitally during the Covid-19 lockdown in April 2021.
Times
08-05-2025
- Business
- Times
Is now a good time to take home some Taylor Wimpey shares?
The opening few months of 2025 have been steady for Britain's housebuilders, which is more than can be said for the previous two and a half years. Taylor Wimpey confirmed as much on Tuesday with the all-important spring selling season — the busiest time of the year for developers — progressing 'in line with expectations'. Since January, the group has been selling about 0.76 homes a week at each of its 208 developments, 9 per cent more than in the same period of 2024. The order book has increased to £2.34 billion, which is almost £300 million more than at this point last year. • House prices up 4% as buyers race to beat stamp duty deadline Jennie Daly, Taylor Wimpey's chief executive, noted 'good
CBC
07-05-2025
- Climate
- CBC
Spring lobster season off to a rough start, N.B. fisherman says
Ernest Robichaud, who's been fishing lobster off Tabusintac, N.B., for 52 years, says the spring season has started with low numbers of lobsters and a low price per pound.
