Real Estate: Still the Leading US Asset

If you put your money on coffee and cattle in 2014, you might be smiling all the way to the bank. But if you backed crude oil and gas – well, not so much. That’s the verdict from Business Insider’s recent charting of the performance of what it claims are all the major...

Moving Data Holds Clues for Investors

The US has always been a restless nation. Moving – whether across the street or across the country – is a given in the lives of most Americans, who pack up and head out for work, school and countless other reasons. Recent data on destinations and departures from the...

Single Moms Drive Shifts in Rental Housing

More than half of American children live with a single mom. That’s the finding of a new study on the changing demographics of American culture – and those numbers, and the economic realities behind them, mean new challenges and opportunities for rental property...

Solar Energy Powers Home Sales

The future looks bright for solar energy. And that’s good news for real estate. Once viewed as nothing more than a pricey plaything for well off environmentalists, solar power is going mainstream, achieving “grid parity” with the giants of conventionally energy in...

Red State, Blue State: Who Wins in Housing?

And you thought there was just one US housing market. Turns out, there are many regional versions that make up the national market whose ups and downs are being closely monitored after the massive collapse of a few years ago. And not all those markets are behaving the...