Delinquent Mortgage Decline Signals an Upturn

By many benchmarks, the housing market’s recovery continues, with rising home prices, more new construction and even a safer lending environment for mortgage applicants. But casting a long shadow over all these rosier indicators is the vast and stagnant foreclosure...

US Tops the Markets for Foreign Investors

Last year foreign investment in US real estate topped $7 billion in single family home purchases alone. As a new report by CNBC reveals, four of the top five cities for global real state investment were in the United States, investors from countries around the world...

What’s Next for Housing in 2014?

The new year is only a few days old, and some of the promised changes to the housing landscape are already in place. The Federal Reserve will begin to implement its stimulus “taper down” and the tighter lending rules ushered in by the Consumer Finance Protection...

Vampire Properties Chill the Housing Market

Halloween is over, but zombies and vampires continue to plague the housing market. Those are the names given to problematic foreclosures that can’t be turned into assets by the lending institutions that hold them. And because these properties can’t be sold, financial...

Vintage Home Sales: The New Market

Call them vintage. classic or just plain old, homes of a certain age are quietly driving housing sales in markets around the country, as investors and residential home buyers alike snap up these older properties at bargain – basement prices. According to a new report...