Real Estate

Cash-Stretched New Homebuyers Are Drawing a Line at Fixer-Uppers

Single family homes in San Marcos, Texas.

Photographer: Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg
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For homebuyers trying to crack into a tough US housing market, it would seem like relief is here: New listings are on the rise.

The quality of properties, however, is on the decline. Sometimes shockingly so.