Rising Home Prices Denting Short Sales

Rising home prices in many markets may be giving underwater homeowners the determination to stick it out in the hopes of being able to eventually sell at a profit, stunting the continued growth of short sales, data aggregator RealtyTrac reported today....

Why You Need To Check Out Surrounding Properties Before You Buy

  |         Imagine shopping for your dream home in the hot Seattle area market. You go to an open house, it’s crowded, you know there are multiple offers. But you feel like this is it, your dream home. It even has a great swath of vacant land behind the home for...

Home prices post biggest gain in more than 7 years

The median existing single-family home price posted its biggest annual gain in more than seven years in the first quarter of 2013, as market conditions for home sellers continued to improve and home sales increased, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported...

Big money betting big on housing

By Maureen Farrell @CNNMoneyInvest February 4, 2013: 6:52 AM ET The latest sign of a housing boom: investors are clamoring to buy up homebuilding stocks, homes, and undeveloped land. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Investors are betting big on the housing recovery. Hedge funds...

Housing Affordability Index to Set Annual Record for 2012

Media Contact: Walter Molony / 202-383-1177 / Email WASHINGTON (January 9, 2013) – With 11 months of data reported, 2012 will clearly go down as a record year for favorable housing affordability conditions, and a great year for buyers who could get a mortgage,...

Best Housing Markets for 2013

In the past 12 months, home prices have skyrocketed in some major U.S. cities. In Phoenix, according to real estate information site Trulia, asking home prices increased by 26.9 percent between November 2011 and November 2012. Of course, that’s after home prices...