by Nick Timiraos Nationwide, international buyers spent $82.5 billion on residential real estate in the 12-month period that ended in March, according to the National…
USA TODAYSales of previously occupied homes up in AprilUSA TODAYBy Martin Crutsinger, AP WASHINGTON – Americans bought more previously owned homes in April, a hopeful sign that the weak housing market is gradually improving. David Goldman, AP David G…
The latest evidence that a bottom of sorts is in for the housing market comes from California. Here’s the PR from the California Association of…
In a rare moment of semi-lucid disclosure, the National Association of Realtors (“NAR”) reported that home sales contracts are falling apart TWICE as often as they did last year, according to the numbers released at its annual convention in Anah…
Back in May, I posted an article on Minyanville asserting that all-cash buyers have kept several major housing markets from collapsing. (See All-Cash Buyers Preventing Collapse of Housing Markets.) With new evidence in to support this claim, now is a…
From New York to Honolulu, Chinese homebuyers are swooping in to help salvage the U.S. housing market.
Indeed, California, Florida, New York, and even Hawaii have seen a marked up-tick in home sales to Chinese buyers who are exporting their countr…
If you thought the recovery was on track—the economy growing again, unemployment slowly receding, housing prices stabilizing, the stock market rising—you thought wrong. In recent weeks, virtually every indicator has headed south. The only consol…
I was riding high in April, shot down in May. Watching that mighty river of real estate sentiment, Zillow.com, I found recently that my accidental-landlord house in Virginia had picked up a cool 15 percent in value since January.
Why? Sentiment, ba…
An increasing number of Americans are opting to buy smaller homes or even rent, experts say, as uncertainty about the struggling housing market, energy prices, and a lackluster domestic economy persists.
“Despite home prices that have really rolled…
Florida’s ‘shadow’ real-estate inventory ranks No. 1 in U.S.
Unlisted homes in limbo could threaten Florida’s fragile recovery.
The forecast could be dim for the Sunshine State as a looming…
