More than 70 percent of metro areas in the U.S. are now a proud part of the NAHB’s Improving Markets Index, according to the association’s latest tally. A total of 255 metropolitan areas were featured in the July Improving

Real estate brokerages face plenty of challenges, but according to a new survey, the increasing age of real estate agents comes out on top. It was just two months ago that the National Association of Realtors reported that only

Fannie Mae’s National Housing Survey for June offered further evidence of the housing recovery, with more homebuyers looking to enter the marketplace. According to Fannie Mae’s June 2013 National Housing Survey, mortgage rates and housing prices are perceived to be

Redfin’s Real-Time Fastest Markets Report offers an interesting glimpse at what housing markets are seeing the most activity. Is Miami among them? Housing demand lessened somewhat nationwide in May, according to the latest Real-Time Fastest Markets Report from Redfin,

Asking prices in Miami were on a tear in June, according to the latest Trulia Price Monitor, posting double-digit increases. Asking prices in Miami soared in the June Trulia Price Monitor, increasing 15.6 percent year-over-year and 3.3 percent quarter-over-quarter.

Another month, another rock-solid collection of data on the residential construction industry from the Census Bureau. May was another solid month for the construction industry, with spending on new projects increasing by 5.4 percent year-over-year, according to the latest

May was yet another month of double-digit home price increases, according to the latest Home Price Index from CoreLogic. Home prices in the CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI) increased 12.2 percent year-over-year in May, the largest such increase since

It’s been a wild ride for the U.S. mortgage marketplace in recent years, but things are on the mend according to the latest report from LPS. To say the least, the post-housing boom marketplace has been an eventful one

Foreign homebuyers contributed $68.2 billion in sales in 2013, a number that, though certainly big, actually represents a step back from 2012. Are foreign homebuyers losing their appetite for U.S. real estate, or are international economic forces prohibiting them

Pending Home Sales had a smashing May, according to the National Association of Realtors, hitting a six-year high as more homes went under contract. The month of may was a very good month for pending home sales, with the Pending

The housing market is moving towards recovery with U.S. home prices increasing, found FNC in its latest study of the market. U.S. home prices are continuing to climb in April, as stated by the most recent FNC Residential Price

Housing prices have been uniformly increasing the last year, but a new Trulia study finds that city markets have the edge on their suburban competitors. City or suburbs? It’s one of the prevailing questions in real estate today, whether

New residential home sales were nothing but positive in May, with sales posting both monthly and yearly increases. The new construction market continued its recovery in May, with sales of new single-family homes rising 2.1 percent from April to

No industry was more affected by the housing slump than construction, but 10 markets in the U.S. have robust construction markets; is Chicago one of them? Though nearly every industry in the U.S. was impacted by the economic downturn,

Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Price Indices put up smashing numbers in April, and here in Miami, the situation was similarly promising. Miami home prices rose 2.4 percent from March to April in the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices from

NAR’s existing-home sales report for May, which came out last week, offered a very interesting glimpse at where housing is right now in its recovery. Last week’s existing-home sales report from the National Association of Realtors was a smorgasbord