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on January 17,2011
Fannie Mae has started testing a foreclosure-prevention program in Florida that is designed to bring banks and troubled borrowers together earlier. The idea behind the program is to get banks and...
on January 17,2011
NAHB Chief Economist David Crowe is forecasting 575,000 single-family home starts in 2011, a 21 percent bump over an estimated 475,000 units started in 2010, according to his annual state of the...
on January 11,2011
Many homeowners who put off remodeling and repairs last year due to the economy are now ready to make the investment, a new survey reported.
on January 06,2011
The troubled real estate market affects homes both large and small—but when mansions need a sale price reduction, the discount can jump into the millions. Zillow.com, a real-estate listing...
on January 04,2011
A recent survey found that outcome and design were the most important factors in determining project satisfaction for a home remodel. The National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI) poll...
on January 03,2011
Construction spending rose slightly in November, increasing to a seasonally adjusted rate of $810.2 billion, according to Census Bureau data. The rate is 0.4 percent higher than the revised October...
on January 01,2011
For the second straight year, real estate stocks ended the year with gains twice as high as the general stock market, The Wall Street Journal reported. According to Dow Jones, REITs were up 27...
on January 01,2011
A study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia shows that 20 percent of homeowners that go into foreclosure on their first mortgage continue to make payments on a second-lien mortgage. The...
on December 30,2010
The National Association of Realtor’s (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index continued to increase in November, rising 3.5 percent since October.
on December 28,2010
U.S. home prices declined in October as the growth rate continues to decelerate, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices report released today. Each of the 20 metropolitan areas...
on December 26,2010
Small home builders are the mainstay of the nation’s housing industry, including a sizable number of self-employed mom-and-pop operations, according to a new study by NAHB economists. Slightly more...
on December 22,2010
Homes prices across the U.S. rose between September and October, although prices remain lower than in October 2009.
on December 22,2010
Existing home sales were up again in November, hitting their highest level since the expiration of the tax credit in June. At an annual pace of 4.68 million, sales were up 5.6 percent from October's...
on December 20,2010
Rising mortgage interest rates have reignited first-time home buyers’ interest in purchasing a home over the last several months, UPI reported. The rates for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages began to...
on December 17,2010
Despite the recent housing crisis, most Americans still desire to own a home, but their attitudes may not line up with financial realities, CNN reported. A survey by Fannie Mae found that more 51...
on December 16,2010
Construction material prices have risen in the last year, while finished-building price indexes remained flat, adding additional financial stress to builders and contractors already facing the...
on December 16,2010
A new study by Fannie Mae found that most Americans have strong aspirations of owning their own home, despite the economic and housing turmoil. The desire to buy and own a home is strong both among...
on December 16,2010
A rollercoaster year in real estate is almost over, but a new poll shows most aren’t too optimistic for 2011, HousingPredictor.com reported.
on December 16,2010
Privately-owned housing starts in November were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 555,000 — 3.9 percent above the revised October estimate, according to the Commerce Dept. The single-family...
on December 15,2010
Builder confidence in new single-family homes remained flat in December, according to the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. The index remained at 16, the...
