In today’s housing market, green upgrades mean better prices and quick sales, and solar adaptations lead the way in eco friendly alterations. But as incentives and credits help homeowners install rooftop solar panels, utility companies around the country are starting...
Capitol Hill is taking aim at housing finance reform. With not one, but two new bills in contention for reforming the government’s role in home loans and homeowner bailouts, legislators on both sides of the aisle are competing to form a new, but not necessarily kinder...
Once the edgy digital darling beloved by cybergeeks around the world, the Bitcoin has gone – well, a little too mainstream for some tastes. Eagerly traded in standard stock exchanges and used for well-publicized purchases such as in vitro fertilization, the virtual...
Mortgage rates are still low and the housing recovery still appears to be moving along. But in many markets around the country, fewer potential buyers are making that first step toward buying a home. Although the reasons for their absence from the housing scene is as...
Mortgage interest rates are still astonishingly low, even though they’ve begun to creep up from the historic low levels of a few months ago. While some housing industry watchers have worried that the rise in rates could put the brakes on the emerging housing recovery,...
