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Byline: EDDIE SMALL Jonathan Miller's reports on New York's rental and sales markets have become essential reading for anyone trying to navigate the increasingly complex housing situation during the pandemic. [...]

Median home prices have plummeted below $160,000 in several Antelope Valley ZIP codes, and home-sales volumes in several of those areas in July nearly doubled from year-ago levels, according to [...]

Despite turbulent weather in the housing market, lumber and building material dealers have not been cowering in the corner waiting for the storm to pass. TRUE, IN SOME PARTS OF [...]

WHAT'S to make of the Los Angeles housing market? Simply put, it depends upon whom you ask: either it's already on its way to recovery or has yet to experience [...]

It has long been a tradition that Reserve Bank Governors begin their year with a speech to the Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce and because the economy of Christchurch is [...]

IF THE LUXURY REAL ESTATE MARKET were a movie, it would be doing boffo boxoffice, and ticket buyers would be lining up around the block. With rapid appreciation, continued demand […]

Golfing is a major recreational activity and growing business enterprise in the United States. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census (1992), the number of golfers increased by 147% [...]

The economic impact of weak home prices extends well beyond the housing market. California and the Northeast have experienced this first-hand. The U.S. economy continues to founder. Consumer spending remains [...]

Existing Condo Sales Prices: Existing condo and co-op sales, measured at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, fell by 3.1 percent to 630,000 over the month of July. However, the decline [...]

It used to be that home prices only went in one direction--up. But in the brave new world of mortgage banking, housing prices have proven they can just as easily [...]

Will future generations find themselves increasingly locked out of the housing market? Or will other factors, brought about by changing demographics, ultimately ease affordability problems? American demographics are in flux. [...]

If they knew then, what they know now... WHAT DID TEXAS TEACH US ABOUT REAL ESTATE? In 1988, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors gave Ted C. Jones the worst evaluations [...]

The good news for today is that new home inventories are down dramatically. Resale inventories are down dramatically and home sales are up significantly. Sales of foreclosures exceed new homes [...]

The causes for the worst economic crisis since the 1930s are many, but at the core of the problem was a sweeping relaxation of underwriting standards by lenders, fostered by [...]

Third-party valuations aren't keeping pace, torpedoing sales. Here's what happened with Carrie Ortwein's Fletcher Place home: Listed June 1 $250,000 Offer accepted $250,000 Appraisal $195,000 Re-listed June 8 $250,000 Scores [...]

Byline: Harry Terris Home equity lending remains miles away from returning to growth mode, despite anecdotal evidence of a comeback and rising real estate prices that are fortifying loans already [...]

Byline: Jim Tankersley Say you bought a sprawling ranch-style house in 2007, with a guest room just begging to be turned into a nursery. If you lived in Las Vegas, [...]

Byline: S.Jhoanna Robledo We know the eurozone is barely hanging on, job reports are terrible, and nobody's hiring. What we don't know--because it typically takes a few months to become [...]

Byline: Marc Hochstein and Sara Lepro Prices 'Reasonable' The 'new normal' for home prices may be the old normal. In a note to private banking clients last week, economists at [...]

Is a fixed rate better than a variable one? Should you offset your home loan? Phil Mileham advises. While the housing market has shown signs of recovery recently, it is [...]

Byline: Jennifer Harmon HOLLYWOOD, FL-When it comes to disposing of rising real estate-owned assets, property managers say the problem of strict lending guidelines is becoming a major obstacle at getting [...]

WASHINGTON-Analyzing public deeds of trust filed in county court houses and comparing home prices to its own automated valuation models, First American CoreLogic found that 18% of all mortgaged properties [...]

The housing market provides some nasty shocks to China's new middle classes HOMEOWNERS in a middle-class district in northern Beijing are angry. The developer of their block of flats has [...]

Denver -- Integrated Asset Services LLC joined the ranks of home price index producers recently, saying it provides 'more granular data' that demonstrate 'pockets of opportunity' for nonperforming loan buyers. [...]

By Bill Lurz, Senior Editor The housing slump first hinted its size in last year's Giant 400. Now it's shown its truly bestial dimensions. But even as the industry falls [...]

By Bill Lurz, Senior Editor Site-built housing's downturn dragged the manufactured housing sector into the gloom the past two years, but now the sun is beginning to shine again for [...]

By Bill Lurz, Senior Editor, Business That's what one South Florida builder told Bill Lurz on his blog, Ear to the Ground. To test the theory that housing location is [...]

The Northern Irish housing market is set to better the rest of the UK in 2005, says e.surv chartered surveyors. Steve Hinds, senior surveyor at e.surv, says: 'Construction is one [...]

Population and house prices are booming in the north of Scotland FOR years, city-dwellers have admired both the natural grandeur and the majestic emptiness of the Scottish Highlands. But the [...]

It's the government, not the Bank, that's the trouble HOUSE prices have replaced the weather as Britain's favourite conversational standby, reckons Andrew Smithers, an independent financial analyst. Unlike Britain's temperate [...]

Byline: Daniel McGinn Henry and Rachel Ross aren't looking for a mansion. Their needs are simple: a home with enough space for their children (their third is due in November), [...]

London house prices have now fallen for two quarters on the trot GOOD news for first-time buyers, those wanting something a little larger because baby is on the way, and [...]