S&P Case-Shiller Housing Price Index - January 2009
From Standardandpoors.com - "Home Price Declines Continue as the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Prices Indices Set New Record Annual Declines":Data through November 2008, released today by Standard &...
View ArticleMortgage Applications Tank
From CNNMoney.com - "Mortgage applications plunge":Applications for U.S. home mortgages cratered to levels not seen since November last week as rates held stubbornly above record lows engineered by the...
View ArticleNew Home Sales Plunge - Lowest Ever Recorded!
From CNNMoney.com - "New home sales plunge to lowest on record",Sales of newly constructed homes plunged in December to the lowest level on record, going back to 1963, according to a government report...
View ArticleGovernment-Backed 4% Fixed-Rate Mortgages?
From CNNMoney.com - "Obama pledges mortgage help":Republicans, who opposed the president's stimulus package of over $800 billion largely because of its spending priorities, suggested mortgage help as...
View ArticlePending Home Sales Up - December 2008
From CNNMoney.com - "Pending home sales rise in December":Plunging home prices and low mortgage rates pushed homebuying activity higher in December, according to a regular industry report released on...
View ArticleMortgage Applications Move Higher
From CNNMoney.com - "Mortgage applications rise":U.S. mortgage applications rose in the last week of January, reflecting a jump in demand for home refinancing loans even as interest rates rose to their...
View ArticleCleaning Out Foreclosures
Needless to say, foreclosures are a sad and unfortunate circumstance confronted by many Americans today. This video gives brief insight to markets at work and the opportunities that abound from the...
View ArticleNAR 4th Quarter 2008 Home Prices
From CNNMoney.com - "Home prices in record plunge -- (NAR 4th quarter housing price numbers chart is at the bottom of the CNNMoney.com article)":Home prices fell 12.4% during the fourth quarter of...
View ArticleRecord Low Housing Starts
From Bloomberg - On the surface, more terrible news in regards to new housing starts and new construction permits. The silver lining asserted in the video is that we are not "effectively adding new...
View ArticleFebruary Existing Home Sales Rise While Home Prices Tank
As reported my CNNMoney.com - "Existing home sales spike 5%":Sales of existing homes unexpectedly rose in February, recovering from a sharp drop in the previous month, according to an industry report...
View ArticleFebruary New Home Sales Rise
As reported by CNNMoney.com - "New home sales in surprise rebound":Sales of newly constructed homes unexpectedly rose in February, rebounding nearly 5% after sinking to the lowest level on record in...
View ArticleForeclosure Filings Up in Record Numbers
From CNNMoney.com, "Foreclosure filings in record jump":Servicers initiated foreclosure proceedings against 290,000 mortgage borrowers,a jump of nearly 20% from February's 243,000, and the highest...
View ArticleForeclosures Continue to Thrive as Moratoriums are Phased Out
As reported my CNNMoney.com - "Foreclosure plague: No cure yet":Despite some positive signs starting to surface in select housing markets, foreclosures are still on the rise:There were more than...
View ArticleHousing Recovery?
Interesting points regarding the U.S. housing market, the recovery, and housing regions where real estate should fare well.
View ArticleHousing Affordability
As reported by CNNMoney.com - "Homes still affordable - really affordable":Homes continue to be more affordable than they have been in nearly two decades.The typical American family, making the...
View ArticleSales of Existing U.S. Homes Rise
As reported by Bloomberg.com - "Sales of Existing U.S. Homes Probably Climbed as Prices Fell":Sales of existing U.S. homes probably climbed in July to the highest level in 10 months, signaling the...
View ArticlePending Home Sales Index - September 2009
As reported by CNNMoney.com - "Home sales contracts rise for 8th straight month":The number of signed sales contracts to buy homes rose in September for the eighth straight month, according to a real...
View ArticleU.S Housing Starts Plunge
As reported by CNNMoney.com, "Home construction at lowest point in 6 months":Homebuilders began construction at an annual rate of 529,000 new homes during the month, 10.6% below the revised September...
View ArticleU.S. Housing Recovery in 2010?
Courtesy of Bloomberg: "U.S. Housing Recovery Delayed to 2010 as Market Wanes" -- Housing quotes and predictions from some of the biggest players and analyst in the industry.I don't think the housing...
View ArticlePeter Schiff on Housing, Economics, Politics, and Much More!
Peter Schiff on housing, economics, politics, and much more from his interview with Eric King with King World News. Video interview courtesy of YouTube.com.
View ArticlePending Home Sales Index
From Realtor.org, "Nine Consecutive Gains for Pending Home Sales":The Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contracts signed in October, increased 3.7 percent to 114.1 from...
View ArticleEmerging Trends in Real Estate 2010 by PricewaterhouseCoopers
As reported by PricewaterhouseCoopers in their "Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2010."PWC's full PDF real estate...
View ArticleBay Area Home Sales and Prices on the Rise?
As reported by DQNews.com - "Bay Area home sales and median price top last year again":The median price paid for a Bay Area home rose above the year-ago level for the second consecutive month, a...
View ArticleFormer Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Housing
CNNMoney's Christine Romans interviews former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to get his take on the housing market past and present.
View ArticleExisting Home Sales - March 2010
From CNNMoney.com, "Existing home sales soar in March":Existing home sales jumped 6.8% in March, with home buyers racing to get a tax credit that expires in April, according to a real estate industry...
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