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The 15 Best Housing Markets For The Next Five Years

American home prices are expected to decline 1 percent from now through March 2013, according to the latest home price report by Fiserv Case-Shiller. But over the next five years, home prices are...

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America’s Worst Housing Markets

U.S. home prices rose in June from the same month last year, according to the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index released Tuesday. Steady increases have contributed to a housing...

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Is The Housing Recovery For Real?

The big headline number for housing was yesterday’s report that the Case-Shiller Index rose more rapidly on an annual basis than anytime since 2006.  Does this mean the housing market is back?  Two...

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Las Vegas Considered to be Top 5 Housing Markets With Great Bargains (If...

Some U.S. housing markets still offer big bargains even though asking prices have risen 8.3% nationwide over the past year, market tracker Trulia.com says. “Prices fell so much after the housing bubble...

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Housing outlook is bubble free for now, economists say

Despite double-digit price gains in many markets, the housing outlook is bubble free for now as the sector recovers over the next several years, experts say. Kicking off a panel of economists...

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Five Local Market Snapshots Show Erratic Housing Recovery

Never has the mantra that all real estate is local been more true than during the recent, rumored real estate recovery. This became clearly evident when researching five metro housing markets for a...

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Housing markets about to get squeezed

The Federal Housing Finance Agency plans to reduce the maximum size of mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac this January. The current limits are $417,000 in most parts of the country and up...

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Lending Rules Could Have Cut Defaults in Half

Nearly half of all mortgage defaults from the housing bust might have been prevented by forthcoming consumer-protection regulations, but another 25% of loans that didn’t default might not have been...

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Freddie Mac positive on housing in 2nd half of 2014 | Foreclosure inventories...

Wednesday – July 23 Freddie Mac released its July U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook this week showing mixed data results for the housing recovery as we head into the second half of the year. The...

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