(Monday, February 08, 2010) NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fewer U.S. homeowners expect the value of their homes to decline in the year ahead, but they also believe gains are unlikely, according to a Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan survey published on Friday.
(Friday, February 05, 2010) NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fewer U.S. homeowners expect the value of their homes to decline in the year ahead, but they also believe gains are unlikely, according to a Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan survey published on Friday.
(Friday, February 05, 2010) Homebuyers spurred by low interest rates and government incentives helped lift Beazer Homes USA Inc.'s sales in the last three months of 2009, but the builder only turned a profit because of a hefty tax gain.
(Thursday, February 04, 2010) NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of U.S. homes listed for sale rose in January compared to December after 18 consecutive months of decline, according to data released on Thursday by real estate brokerage ZipRealty.
(Thursday, February 04, 2010) McLEAN, Va. Rates on 30-year fixed mortgages rose slightly this week, inching above 5 percent, Freddie Mac said Thursday.The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage was 5.01 percent this week, up from 4.98 percent last week
(Thursday, February 04, 2010) Making homes suitable for elderly occupants is easy to describe, but it can be very expensive to do. The cheapest solution is to make homes senior-friendly when they are built, rather than trying to retrofit them. Some of the most elegant and cost-effective solutions are recognized each year by AARP and the National Association of Home Builders. The winning designs employ imaginative solutions that reduce energy consumption and use smart communications tools for home security and health-related "telemedical" applications
(Thursday, February 04, 2010) NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The financial wizards who concocted the complicated mortgage-linked investments that nearly brought down the world economy are trying to come back from the dead.
(Thursday, February 04, 2010) NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Luckily for banks, the commercial real estate time bomb just keeps on ticking.
Industry observers have issued dire warnings for more than a year, suggesting that lenders are on a collision course with potentially billions of dollars worth of commercial real estate losses.
(Thursday, February 04, 2010) NEW YORK – A judge has ordered the foreclosure sale of the historic Riverton Houses, a middle-class Harlem apartment complex that plummeted in value amid the housing downturn.
(Thursday, February 04, 2010) U.S. mortgage applications surge
A gauge of home loan demand in the U.S. shot up 21% to a 6-week high of 620.7 in the week ended Jan. 29 as buyers took advantage of low interest rates and the federal tax credit, the Mortgage Bankers Association said
(Wednesday, February 03, 2010) NEW YORK (Reuters) – The pace of job losses in the private sector slowed in January as employers reported the smallest payroll decline in nearly two years while demand for home loans hit a six-week high last week, data showed on Wednesday.
(Wednesday, February 03, 2010) NEW YORK (Reuters) – A group of influential mortgage investors is intensifying efforts to encourage a new phase to U.S. housing stability plans that would give homeowners ability and incentive to pay their loans.
(Wednesday, February 03, 2010) NEW YORK (Reuters) – Demand for U.S. home loans rose to a six-week high on a mini refinance wave, with borrowers pushing to lock in rates before they climb later this year, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Wednesday
(Wednesday, February 03, 2010) About 5.1 million will own a home valued below 75 percent of what is owed Benjamin Koellmann paid $215,000 for his apartment in Miami Beach in 2006, but now units are selling in foreclosure for $90,000.
(Wednesday, February 03, 2010) NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- As terrible as it is to lose your house to foreclosure, at least it's a relief to put your biggest financial headache behind you, right?
(Wednesday, February 03, 2010) NEW YORK (Reuters) – More and more U.S. consumers are giving greater priority to paying credit card debt than making a mortgage payment, showing increased financial duress, according to a report released on Wednesday
(Tuesday, February 02, 2010) MIAMI – The number of people preparing to buy a home rose slightly in December, a positive sign heading into the spring home buying season.
(Tuesday, February 02, 2010) NEW YORK (Reuters) – Home buyers in much of the United States paid thousands of dollars below asking prices in December and for the first time in 11 months gained negotiating power, real estate website Zillow.com said on Tuesday
(Tuesday, February 02, 2010) The number of Americans signing home sales contracts flattened out in December after plunging the previous month. The National Association of Realtors' pending home sales index--which gages signed contracts but not transaction closings--inched up 1 percent from November to December and stands at nearly 11 percent above its year-earlier level
(Tuesday, February 02, 2010) NEW YORK – The dollar dipped Tuesday after a report on the U.S. housing market showed some improvement, sparking interest in riskier trades, while worries over Greece's debt problems eased slightly.
(Tuesday, February 02, 2010) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pending sales of existing U.S. homes edged up as expected in December, while home vacancies rose in the fourth quarter, pointing to a slow and painful recovery for the troubled housing market.
(Tuesday, February 02, 2010) NEW YORK – Interest rates were little changed in the bond market Tuesday even as new signs of strength emerged in the housing market.
(Tuesday, February 02, 2010) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration must ensure U.S. housing market stability is retained as it reforms the nation's two largest providers of home mortgage credit, a top Treasury Department official said on Monday
(Sunday, January 31, 2010) NEW YORK (Reuters) - A recent decline of home sales is swelling the supply of houses and may push prices down, adding to losses from an earlier three-year slide, said rating agency Standard & Poor's in a statement on Friday
(Sunday, January 31, 2010) DUBAI (Reuters) – New York's famed Bloomingdale's department store opened its doors in the Middle East's biggest mall on Sunday in its first foray outside its home market.
(Friday, January 29, 2010) LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyds TSB (LLOY.L) raised $1 billion via a residential mortgage-backed bond on Friday, reopening a U.S. market that had been shut since mid-2008 because of the credit crunch.
(Friday, January 29, 2010) Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s efforts to bolster the U.S. housing market, the trigger of the worst recession since the 1930s, may be undone by record unemployment and repossessions by lenders.
(Friday, January 29, 2010) LONDON – U.K. house prices rose 1.2 percent during January to push them 8.6 percent higher from a year ago, a major mortgage lender said Friday, while a separate survey showed consumer confidence picked up after a three-month drop.
(Friday, January 29, 2010) NEW YORK – Tishman Speyer Properties walks away from 11,232 Manhattan apartments because it can't pay its mortgage. That's good business.
(Friday, January 29, 2010) LOS ANGELES – A former Beverly Hills real estate appraiser has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for her role in a massive mortgage fraud.
(Friday, January 29, 2010) Mortgage rates little changed
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell 1 basis point 15 4.98% this week, Freddie Mac said, amid Federal Reserve efforts to keep borrowing costs low to foster an economic recovery. The 30-year rate remains above the record-low 4.71% set in Dec.
(Friday, January 29, 2010) WASHINGTON — Conceding that its initial mortgage relief program has been less than successful, the Treasury Department Thursday announced new rules to simplify and speed the decision-making process for struggling borrowers trying to modify the terms of their distressed mortgages.
(Friday, January 29, 2010) WASHINGTON – Homeowners seeking relief under the Obama administration's mortgage aid program will be required to provide proof of their incomes upfront, a significant reversal for the problem-plagued effort to stem the foreclosure crisis.
(Friday, January 29, 2010) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration unveiled changes to its $75 billion home loan modification program on Thursday in an effort to boost the number of trial home loans that become permanent.
(Friday, January 29, 2010) McLEAN, Va. – Rates on 30-year mortgages remained almost flat this week as the Federal Reserve said it would keep rates near record lows to help the economy recover.
(Friday, January 29, 2010) NEW YORK – Shares of IFM Investments, also known as Century 21 China, are rising Thursday after the Chinese real estate broker raised $87.5 million in a pared-back initial public offering
(Thursday, January 28, 2010) Sales of previously owned US property suffered a record drop last month as the boost from a popular tax credit waned, raising doubts that the real estate market recovery can be sustained without government support
(Thursday, January 28, 2010) Mortgage applications fell for the first time in four weeks, with relatively low interest rates having limited appeal for a shrinking universe of qualified borrowers who see the benefit of refinancing home loans, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.
(Thursday, January 28, 2010) Sales of newly built U.S. single-family homes fell unexpectedly in December as the bounce from an initial tax credit fizzled, the latest sign that the government-led housing recovery might be losing some steam.
(Thursday, January 28, 2010) SAN DIEGO – Mortgage default notices for California homeowners fell 24 percent during the fourth quarter suggesting the worst might be over for foreclosures in entry-level markets while problems spread to pricier neighborhoods a research firm said Wednesday.
(Wednesday, January 27, 2010) SAN DIEGO – Mortgage default notices for California homeowners fell 24 percent during the fourth quarter, suggesting the worst might be over for foreclosures in entry-level markets while problems spread to pricier neighborhoods, a research firm said Wednesday.
(Wednesday, January 27, 2010) CALABASAS, Calif. – Home builder Ryland Group Inc. said Wednesday it posted a profit in the fourth quarter as it benefited from a new tax rule allowing it to offset past losses
(Wednesday, January 27, 2010) AUSTIN, Texas – Bank of America canceled a jobs contract with Texas because the mortgage crisis and a complex merger were preventing its Countrywide Home Loans from adding the 7,500 jobs it promised to the state by late 2010, the company said Wednesday
(Wednesday, January 27, 2010) WASHINGTON – The Treasury Department on Thursday plans to unveil changes designed to streamline burdensome paperwork required for its foreclosure relief plan, according to people briefed on the matter.
(Wednesday, January 27, 2010) WASHINGTON – Sales of new homes fell unexpectedly in December, capping the industry's worst year on record and fueling concern that the housing market turnaround could falter.
(Tuesday, January 26, 2010) NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com)Home prices fell in November for the first time in seven months, according to a industry report released Tuesday.The S&P Case-Shiller 20-city home price index recorded a non-seasonally adjusted decline of 0.2% from October. Prices were down 5.3% compared with 12 months ago.
(Tuesday, January 26, 2010) NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- One roadblock slowing President Obama's foreclosure prevention program seems to be clearing away. Bank of America, the nation's largest mortgage lender, said Tuesday that it was the first lender to agree to lower or eliminate payments on second mortgages
(Tuesday, January 26, 2010) NEW YORK (Reuters)Home prices slipped in November and were softer than expected in the latest sign that a rebound in the U.S. housing market is still tenuous, according to Standard Poor's Case-Shiller indexes on Tuesday.
(Tuesday, January 26, 2010) MIAMI – Home prices rose for the sixth straight month in November, fueled by tax credits for homebuyers.The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index released Tuesday inched up 0.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted reading of 145.49.
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