The WSJ-Realtor.com s Emerging Housing Market Index gave the top spot to Johnson City, Tennessee, citing a strong economy with undervalued but rising property prices and a low unemployment rate.
The housing industry is seeing the effects that higher mortgage rates are having. The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage is 5.66% this week, up from 5.55%.
Austin American-Statesman via AP
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks to the local media before receiving a dose of a Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at the Ascension Seton Medical Center on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the state’s top health official on Tuesday urged vaccine providers not to hold any doses in reserve and to distribute them as quickly as possible as the state deals with record-breaking numbers of virus patients in hospitals and new cases.
In separate statements, Abbott and state health Commissioner Dr. John Hellerstedt suggested that some hospitals are moving fast enough in distributing the vaccine to the first rounds of eligible patients.