Shaina Mishkin is a reporter at Barron’s covering residential real estate and the housing market. With a background that includes leading reporting on the Best Places to Live at Money, she focuses on themes such as commercial real estate, real estate development, and finance. Shaina's work has been featured in Yahoo Finance Singapore, Barron's, MarketWatch, and other prominent outlets.
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Shaina's coverage heavily focuses on real estate, mortgage rates, and housing market trends in the United States. She often cites data and provides investment analysis, indicating a preference for factual information supported by statistics.
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By: Shaina Mishkin
Luxury home sales have increased this spring against an otherwise stagnant market. Continued activity among well-heeled buyers should be a plus for Toll Brothers when it reports its second-quarter results on Tuesday. Analysts expect that Toll Brothers, which constructs luxury homes with an average price point around $1 million, will report earnings of $2.58 a share on roughly $2.42 billion in revenue for its second quarter ended April 30.
Freddie Mac’s weekly 30-year fixed mortgage rate average rose 0.15 percentage point to 6.51%, the biggest weekly gain since late March and the highest rate since the week of August 28, 2025. Geopolitical uncertainty and concerns about inflation are among the factors dragging Treasury yields higher—and, by extension, mortgage rates. The iShares U.S. Home Construction exchange-traded fund, which tracks home builders, was down about 1.3%, while the 10-year Treasury yield, which informs the direction of mortgage rates, was 0.028 percentage point higher, to 4.620%.
Mortgage rates this week saw the largest gain in two months and the highest level since August.
Zillow and real estate companies are feuding over off-market listings. It’s a fight that is once again playing out in court.
By: Shaina Mishkin
Zillow and real estate companies are feuding over off-market listings. It’s a fight that is once again playing out in court.
By: Shaina Mishkin
West Palm Beach, Chicago, and Austin are bucking the lousy housing market with stronger sales.
West Palm Beach, Chicago, and Austin are bucking the lousy housing market with stronger sales.
By: Shaina Mishkin
A decade of policy changes in the Texas capital set the stage for a construction boom. The result is that prices are down and sales are up. Other cities are taking notice.
By: Shaina Mishkin
A decade of policy changes in the Texas capital set the stage for a construction boom. The result is that prices are down and sales are up. Other cities are taking notice.
By: Shaina Mishkin
Berkshire’s acquisition of Taylor Morrison “creates pressure for small- to midsize home builders to pursue value-creating transactions,” one analyst says.
