#fastest-growing-cities

#fastest-growing-cities

"Asia has more diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular patients than anywhere else in the world," Abrar Mir states, emphasizing the severity of the health crisis in the region.

"Domestic migration patterns continue to redistribute the population from the largest counties to less populous ones. Collectively, the 50 counties with 1 million or more people in 2025 had a net domestic migration loss of 637,634."

Kraków offers something many digital nomads look for: a walkable historic centre, vibrant café culture and a growing tech and startup scene.

HousingWire's 2026 Rising Stars honor industry leaders age 40 and under who are making an impact across mortgage, real estate and homebuilding. The honorees represent a range of roles and are recognized for driving innovation, supporting their organizations and contributing to broader industry progress.

If the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, I'll be happy if they only stayed at $4 a gallon. This situation is bound to impact budgets for commuters significantly.

I lost a lot of money while I was in Alberta. I had quite a lot of debt. Sure, you might save $4 or $5 on your bills, but ultimately, that's not what saved me money at all. Moving to Montreal in the summer of 2024 helped replenish the family's budget, even though la belle province is notorious for its higher taxes.

As we move into a new year, the data shows that people are being much more strategic about where they move. While the massive surge of migration to the Sunbelt remains a primary driver of growth, moving to a particular state or region is taking a back seat to moving to very specific neighborhoods.

In North Oaks, Minnesota, property lines extend to the middle of the street, which means the entire city is considered private property.

The top ZIP code Gen Z is moving to in 2025 is 55401, a central area of Minneapolis on the banks of the Mississippi River. Homes in the area are mainly made up of stylish condos and command a median house price of $372,500, which is lower than the average U.S. house price.

Every city contains two transportation systems. One is the visible network of roads, rail lines, sidewalks, and bus routes mapped in planning documents. The other is the invisible geography of privilege and exclusion embedded within it: the neighborhoods that received highways instead of parks, the communities whose bus routes were cut, the sidewalks that abruptly end at the edge of a district.

Household growth is one of the most direct indicators of housing demand. When you add 357,000 households in 10 years, that's about 357,000 additional housing units that needed to be absorbed by the market, whether it's rental or ownership. That's real demand because these households need a shelter.

The cost rose a lot following the pandemic. And some of that was supply chain issues that really increased the costs, and then they didn't quite come back down. And now tariffs are also impacting some products. These costs are part of the reason the amount of new rental housing stock is shrinking.

Across history, the relocation of capital cities has often been associated with moments of political rupture, regime change, or symbolic nation-building. From Brasília to Islamabad, new capitals were frequently conceived as instruments of centralized power, territorial control, or ideological projection. In recent decades, however, a different set of drivers has begun to shape these decisions. Rather than security or representation alone, contemporary capital relocations are increasingly tied to structural pressures such as demographic concentration, infrastructural saturation, environmental risk, and long-term resource management.

I was going to have a "What will Bryce Elder do in 2026?" post for today, but life got in the way, so suffice to say, the first few days of 2026 have not been all too different from 2025 for me. But, things can change, and there's a lot of year to go. So, a completely fluffy, relatively meaningless daily question to kick off the first full week of the year: how much better is this year going to be than last?

Once a nice-to-have niche urban design concept, TOD has become an essential part of many urban neighborhoods. It has helped address the shortage of housing by enabling the development of higher-density residential communities near transit stations. It has helped revitalize countless once-deteriorating or static urban enclaves near transit hubs by activating sidewalks near the developments. And it has spurred walking and transit use, enabling residents of TODs to reduce or eliminate automobile dependency.

President Donald Trump put big investors who own single-family rental homes in the spotlight this week by announcing he wants to ban "large institutional investors" from buying more of this type of housing. Overall, major investors own only about 2 to 3% of the country's single-family rental housing stock, researchers have found. But they control a much larger share of the single-family rental industry in certain markets, particularly in the Sun Belt.

Owning a home is the goal for many, but sometimes, it's smarter financially to rent. Plus, without being tied down by a mortgage, renters have the flexibility to decide where to live every 12 months. Apartment search website RentCafe analyzed 149 metropolitan areas with at least 300,000 residents to make that decision easier. The site factored in 17 metrics across three key categories - location and community, quality of life, and socioeconomics - to rank which metros were the most livable.