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Forecourt retail stores drive growth beyond narrowing fuel margins
Escalating fuel price volatility and shifting consumer and shopper budgets are quietly reshaping South Africa’s retail and fuel sales landscape. According to the 2026 Forecourt Retail Report by Trade Intelligence, a Smollan company, this is prompting and enabling forecourts to evolve from simple refuelling sites into multi-functional retail destinations. As global oil market volatility filters down to local pumps, fuel sales face continuous margin pressure.
Housing Availability and Affordability: 2023
The U.S. Census Bureau collects data and publishes estimates on housing characteristics that provide insight into the nation’s housing. This report focuses on several measures that capture changes in housing availability and affordability, including measures of housing inventory, housing unit structure types, vacancy rates, homeownership rates, home values, monthly housing costs, and housing cost burden.
Factors Like Home Ownership Status and Extreme Weather May Affect Property Insurance Costs from State to State
Factors Like Home Ownership Status and Extreme Weather May Affect Property Insurance Costs from State to State You don’t have to live on the hurricane-prone Gulf Coast or in “Tornado Alley” to face high property insurance costs. At least one state in each of the nation’s four census regions (the Northeast, South, Midwest and West) made the list of the most expensive in which to insure a mortgaged home.
Households that reported being English or German topped list of owner-occupied U.S. households
The largest number of U.S. householders who own the homes they live in identified as English, according to 2020 Census detailed race and ethnicity data released today. The Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File B shows whether a home is owned or rented and if family or nonfamily members live in it. Data are available for approximately 1,500 detailed race and ethnicity groups and detailed American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) tribes and villages.
Households That Reported Being English or German Topped List of Owner-Occupied U.S. Households
In 2020, many states mirrored the national patterns: English alone or in any combination was the largest group of owner-occupied households in 25 states and German alone or in any combination was the largest in 18 states. Although these two race groups were the largest, they were not necessarily the majority of homeowners in that state as there is great diversity in homeownership by race.
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