Tips from your Treasury Secretary: Can't sell -- just rent it!
3:00 PM 6/7/2009
Timothy Geithner is obviously a very busy man. In addition to reassuring the Chinese that they have nothing to worry about the U.S. economy, he's also trying to sell his home in Westchester County, N.Y., pictured at right.But it looks like he may have given up on the latter, at least for now.The...
With friends like these: Homeowners not finding lenders very helpful
11:00 AM 6/4/2009
The New York Times profiles a woman in Mesa, Ariz., who is having a hard time making her mortgage payments since she lost her job as an executive assistant at a local university."Ms. Ulery is among that unhappy cohort -- her house is worth about $122,000, and she owes $143,000 -- but walking away...
Feels like the first time: Realtor group reports pending home sales at 7-year high
12:00 PM 6/3/2009
According to our friends at the National Association of Realtors, the number of pending home sales jumped up 6.7% in April, the largest monthly gain since 2001. That puts the index 3.2% above its year-ago level, in the latest sign the battered U.S. housing sector is stabilizing. This was also the...
Is California's housing market near the bottom?
9:00 AM 5/31/2009
BusinessWeek looks at 10 markets in California where housing demand has picked up of late, boosting prices off the lows we've seen in the past few months.One of the reasons demand has picked back up is California's $10,000 tax credit for buyers, on top of the $8,000 federal first time buyer credit....
Cash is still king: Those looking to remodel get a deal
7:00 PM 5/22/2009
USAToday has found a couple in the San Francisco suburbs who had a contractor come knocking on their door offering to remove a tree -- at a discount."[Darien} Destino and her husband, Don, recently had their 3,000-square-foot home painted by the same contractor who bid 40 percent more for the job...
Are jumbo mortgages holding back the housing market?
9:00 AM 5/22/2009
Yes ... according to the National Association of Realtors in a new report.While interest rates have gone lower and lower for prime "conventional" mortgages, guaranteed by the FHA, Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, there is no federal guarantor for the jumbo mortgage market. According to the NAR, "the...
'Today Show' says Denver will be first market to recover
9:30 AM 5/21/2009
Author and real estate pundit Barbara Corcoran says that cities like Denver, will be the first to bounce back from the housing slump. "It's really the perfect real estate success story," she said. "It had one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation for years running, and now they've cut that...
Condo prices take a beating, but in a few markets, keep on ticking
9:00 AM 5/17/2009
For first-time buyers and investors, condominiums are often a way to get into a hot housing market, offering the potential for appreciation and/or rental income, without having to worry overly about a lot of maintenance costs, zoning and other issues. See the full report in Acrobat.But the condo...
10 best and worst housing markets of the first quarter
9:00 AM 5/15/2009
The National Association of Realtors have released its city by city data for the first quarter. The bad news is that only 18 of the 150 markets surveyed showed appreciation year over year.But which markets did the best overall? The Cumberland, Md., metro area was the strongest market overall, with...
Time to jump back into investing, Shiller says
2:00 PM 5/7/2009
Yale economist Robert Shiller, the creator of the S&P Case-Shiller Index and author of "The Subprime Solution" and "Irrational Exuberance," said that investors should brave the current "economic chaos" and buy stocks and real estate."I'm less pessimistic than I was a few months ago," Shiller...
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