Archive for the ‘Real Estate’ Category

Housing Market: Now May Be the Best Time to Buy Real Estate | Moneyland | TIME.com.

Nationally, housing prices have bottomed and now they are on the rise. Asking prices on homes for sale were 1.9% higher in April than one quarter ago. A 0.5% month-over-month rise in April, on top of month-over-month price increases in March and February, makes for three months in a row of rising asking prices, after adjusting [...]

Americans’ Expectations Align to Encourage Home Buying – New York Times.

Prudential Real Estate Survey: Americans Optimistic.

Good Spring RE News!

Expectations rising for housing market’s spring season

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WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday a cut in fees on many government-backed mortgages that he said could help millions of homeowners refinance, part of an election-year push to boost the shaky U.S. housing market. Under the plan, a typical borrower with a loan backed by the Federal Housing [...]

By Nick Claiton While bubbles have burst, prices tumbled and sales declined in the broad property markets across Europe, at the very top end, in the prime locations, it is often a very different story. Central London is the gold standard of international luxury residential property, but there are other areas that are not far [...]

http://www.propublica.org/article/the-best-most-revealing-reporting-on-the-foreclosure-crisis

Market report – Why Wait? It seems that every time we’re talking about real estate today, the conversation immediately goes to the financial aspects of buying a home. How’s the market? Where are interest rates headed? Should I wait to try and get a “better buy”? Where are prices headed? Should I wait until I [...]