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Daily Real Estate News  |  October 1, 2009  |  Pending home sales have increased for seven straight months, the longest in the series of the index which began in 2001, according to the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®.The Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contracts s...

Daily Real Estate News  |  May 5, 2009  |   Share Potential buyers in areas that were hard hit by the housing downturn have read about bargains, but only find it disappointing when they go shopping."Every open house I've been to has been a zoo," says first-time home buyer Sam Rivero, who has look...

Daily Real Estate News  |  April 9, 2009  |   Share Home Sales: Some Welcomed Signs of Life The hardest-hit housing markets -- Florida's Gulf Coast, California's Inland Empire, and Las Vegas, among others -- experienced a more than 80 percent jump in home sales during the year-over-year period en...

Daily Real Estate News  |  March 23, 2009  |   Share First-time Home Buyers Drive February Sales Existing-home sales increased in February, reversing losses in January, according to the latest report by the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®. However, sales activity remains relatively soft, reflec...

Daily Real Estate News  |  March 2, 2009  |   Share  Home owners who decide to rent out their properties have to stop thinking of themselves as home owners and instead consider themselves as running a small business, experts say.Thinking like a businessperson means focusing on the monthly cost of...

Who Will be Eligible for Foreclosure Help? With the federal government hoping to finalize details for its $75 billion foreclosure prevention program by March 4, officials are fine-tuning eligibility requirements. So far, they are targeting borrowers who spend more than 38 percent of their earning...

Daily Real Estate News  |   February 10, 2009  |   To speed recovery of the housing market, Fannie Mae in March will begin purchasing and guaranteeing mortgages for borrowers carrying loans on as many as nine other properties, up from the current limit of three. However, the number of months of r...

Daily Real Estate News  |   February 10, 2009  |   Share The inventory of existing homes for sale in 29 major markets covered by ZipRealty declined an average of 2.5 percent in January 2009, compared to December 2008 and down 13 percent compared to January 2008.This is a good sign, especially whe...

I thought this was interesting. Being in Las Vegas, our residents know that Summerlin is a large Master Planned Development (neighborhood) within Las Vegas, and not a city, so the fact that it was singled out is interesting, but even more interesting is how much more it grew as compared to the ot...

Daily Real Estate News  |  September 9, 2008Mortgage brokers say Monday was the busiest day they can remember in the last couple of years.The average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate loan fell to 6.04 Monday, about a third of a percentage point lower than on Friday, before the federal takeover of Fa...