Tag Archives: prices
Best state to sell a home
Given the drop in inventory, your home might sell quickly in this state. Continue reading
Will home prices return to 2007?
Home values have been rising, but they have a long way to go before hitting the pre-bubble peak. Continue reading
More buyers, fewer homes for sale
Homebuyers are out there, but they’re finding fewer homes for sale than they were a year ago, according to the latest data from Realtor.com.
In February, the number of homes listed for sale rose a meager 0.5 percent from January, but fell 22 percent fr… Continue reading
Luxury home prices still falling
At the beginning of the housing crash, it seemed as though luxury homes might be spared the worst of it. But the latest Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show that in many metro areas, prices are stabilizing among cheaper homes but … Continue reading
Buyers still in control
The fact that it’s still a buyer’s real-estate market is no surprise. Despite small fluctuations, mortgage rates are low and so are home prices. The problem is that few are buying.
A survey by the mortgage company Fannie Mae shows that while 71 percent… Continue reading
Housing crash dives deeper
The overstatement of existing home sales by the National Association of Realtors, NAR, may have caused a setback to the speed of a housing recovery.
Errors that began in 2007 and accumulated through the housing bust mean that home sales were actually 1… Continue reading
Which housing markets gained?
The market with the biggest gains in home values since 2009 is in one of the states hit hardest by the housing slump: Florida.
Zillow researched the 1,000 largest U.S. cities in a survey for Bloomberg Businessweek and found that Weston, Fla., a suburb … Continue reading