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The Wall Street Journal | April 27, 2012
A new development is catching home buyers off guard as the spring sales season gets under way: Bidding wars are back.
From California to Florida, many buyers are increasingly competing for the same house. Unlike the bidding wars that typified the go-go years and largely reflected surging [...]
Daily Real Estate News | Thursday, December 22, 2011
Median list prices nationwide have risen 4.05 percent on a year-over-year basis, according to November housing data of 146 metro areas from Realtor.com. Fewer cities are reporting year-over-year list price declines, “suggesting a growing optimism on the part of sellers about 2012 market conditions,” according to [...]
CNN Money
Florida’s cities were some of the hardest hit by the housing bust, but now they are leading the charge back. Of Realtor.com’s top 10 turnaround towns, eight are in the Sunshine State.
Phoenix – Median home price: $129,000
After five years of a brutal post-bubble price correction, Phoenix is rising from [...]
Daily Real Estate News | Monday, December 19, 2011
Chicago continued to hold onto the No. 1 spot for most searched for real estate market at Realtor.com in November. What other markets did potential home buyers have their eyes on last month? Realtor.com releases its top search ranking from November based on 146 metro areas.
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Daily Real Estate News | Friday, December 16, 2011
From Chinese investors flocking to California to Canadian snowbirds heading to Arizona, international home buyers are offering a growing niche for more real estate professionals.
But which places are international investors targeting in their home search? Point2Homes.com evaluated where buyers from overseas are looking online to [...]
Daily Real Estate News | Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Pike Research estimates the market for bringing energy efficient to commercial buildings will increase to $100 billion by 2017.
Companies doing retrofits — as well as property managers — are promoting the cost savings and other benefits of energy efficient buildings. President Obama is making [...]
Daily Real Estate News | Tuesday, December 20, 2011
New-home construction and building permits — a future gauge of construction — surged last month, slowly helping to pull the new-home market out of one of its worst years for home building.
Builders broke ground on more homes in November, a 9.3 percent increase over October, [...]
The cliché says that there has never been a better time to buy. The hard data in the housing affordability index confirms that. The affordability index, which takes into account median income, median home price, and mortgage rates, has been bouncing around in the 180 to 200 range since the beginning of this [...]
by Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® – June 2011
The first quarter ended with decent home sales activity, but the rest of the year should be even better. Here’s why.
The first quarter ended with decent home sales activity, with existing homes selling at an annualized pace of [...]
by Derek Kravitz – May 31, 2011. Associated Press
WASHINGTON — An index of home prices in big metro areas has reached its lowest level since 2002, driven down by foreclosures, a glut of unsold homes and the reluctance or inability of many to buy.
Prices fell from February to March in 18 of the [...]
