Donna Tashjian's Blog

 When the housing bubble burst in 2008 home prices went into free fall. Millions of homeowners woke up one morning to find that all of the equity in their home had vanished over night. Since then, the housing market has followed a bumpy trail, full of brief bouts of recovery followed by more bad ...

This year, your clocks aren’t the only things springing forward; home prices have increased by leaps and bounds! Over the last few years, the housing market has made a dramatic recovery, and today homeowners are reaping the benefits.   The last seven to eight years were a chaotic time for the hou...

  It may be cold outside but as we look forward to spring, the U.S. housing market continues to grow and improve. For homeowners, the continued growth in the housing market is fantastic news.   In 2012, the housing market started to show the first signs of improvement. 2013 was a landmark year in...

  Today, home sellers enter a housing market vastly different from the market of a few years ago. Home prices and demand have both increased amid improving economic conditions, and homeowners nationwide are finally able to sell after years of weathering the worst of the housing market crisis.   I...

  There are many indicators experts look at to assess the health of the housing market, and over the last several years, all of these indicators have been improving. Home prices, for one, have skyrocketed over this time period, giving many homeowners back the equity they lost when the housing mar...

This holiday season, many homeowners are discovering that the housing market gave them an early gift—and that gift is equity!   During the worst of the housing crisis, home prices plummeted, and millions of homeowners saw all the equity in their homes vanish. However, over the last couple years, ...

The holiday season is right around the corner, and the housing market could not provide homeowners with better news!   Over the past year, the housing market improved by leaps and bounds. Several factors, such as fewer distressed properties, low inventory, and high demand converged to drive up ho...

When was the last time you reevaluated your equity? Do you know how much equity you have in your home today? While people tend to check other investments regularly, such as stocks and retirement accounts, most do not reassess the value of their biggest investment—their home—nearly as frequently. ...

In 2013, the housing market recovered dramatically. Home prices often increased by double-digit percentages in monthly year-over-year comparisons. In fact, nationwide prices increased by 10.9 percent in 2013 compared to 2012.   While we are not seeing the double-digit growth we saw last year, so ...

      March 2014 marked the 25th consecutive month of year-over-year increases in home prices,   according to the CoreLogic Home Price Index Report. For millions of homeowners, the recent    increase in home prices is helping to end struggles that began when the housing crisis first hit.    As ho...