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When Will Housing Inventory Stop Falling?

Housing inventory has fallen at a precipitous rate, but could relief finally be approaching? New research from Zillow suggests it just might. There are currently two universally acknowledged truths about the U.S. housing market – one, that the market

Busting 3 Homeownership Myths

In the wake of the housing crisis, some nasty myths regarding homeownership had been making the rounds, but they’re just that – myths. During the economic downturn, the concept of homeownership endured quite a bit of mudslinging from numerous

Are the Foreclosure Markets Improving?

RealtyTrac’s latest analysis of the U.S. foreclosure markets found many positive developments, though there still remains work to be done. The foreclosure markets continued their slow, steady improvement in the latest U.S. Foreclosure Market Report from RealtyTrac, though foreclosure

What Homebuyers Want in Their New Home, Pt. 2

NAR’s 2013 Profile of Buyers’ Home Feature Preferences features plenty of details on what homebuyers want in new homes – and how much they’ll pay for them. The National Association of Realtors’ 2013 Profile of Buyers’ Home Feature Preferences is one

Know What Buyers REALLY Want?

What do homebuyers really want? The answer, the NAHB discovered, depends in large part on what kind of home that buyers are looking for. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) recently conducted a consumer survey to find out

What Homebuyers Want in Their New Home, Pt. 1

NAR’s 2013 Profile of Buyers’ Home Feature Preferences has detailed, with impressive specificity, what homebuyers want in their new homes. Understanding key real estate trends is important, and what amenities, preferences and features today’s homebuyers are pursuing in new

Okay, Really: How Affordable is Miami’s Housing Market?

Though today, many housing markets are considered “affordable,” how does our fine city compare to the nation’s most affordable housing markets? Housing affordability is a major selling point for any housing market. After all, if you’re going to succeed

Agents Feeling the Recovery with Confidence

News for the housing market has been uniformly positive since the dawn of the New Year, and an ActiveRain survey finds that optimism has spread to agents. Real estate agents have been a strangely absent component when it comes

34 Million Reasons Miami’s Housing Market is on Fire

Miami is certainly no stranger to high-priced real estate, but a record condo sale has shown yet again why the Magic City currently boasts one of the nation’s hottest housing markets. The Miami real estate market has been on

The Insane Cost of International Real Estate

You may think real estate in your market is pricey, but new research from Knight Frank finds that with one exception, the U.S. has got nothing on the International real estate scene. The real estate market in New York

Is the Next Housing Crash Coming in 2020?

Though the housing market is finally hitting its recovery stride, a University of Utah researcher suggests another housing crash will take place in 2020, and from a most unlikely source – senior citizens. Early last year, the housing market

What Will Homebuyers Do in 2013?

The combination of low housing inventory and rising home prices is creating a big boost in activity among 2013’s potential homebuyers, Redfin finds. The current housing market is certainly an interesting one. Though numerous sectors of the housing market

5 Signs that Residential Construction is Back

Residential construction suffered a heavy blow when the housing market collapsed in 2008, but it’s showed definite signs of recovery in recent months. Few industries suffered more setbacks than residential construction during the housing downturn; the last couple months,

45 Percent of Consumers See Home Prices Rising in 2013

Americans’ price expectations have increased to a record high, according to Fannie Mae’s February 2013 National Housing Survey results, while views on their personal financial situation, household income and the direction of the economy fell or remained

Will Lending Standards Ease at All in 2013?

It’s become the eternal question in real estate – when oh when will lending standards ease up? Though the housing market has put up some of its strongest numbers since 2006, the mortgage markets, from the perspective of many

2.8 Million: Number of Foreign Homeowners Expected by 2020

The number of foreign-born homeowners in the U.S. is expected to rise more than 16 percent and hit 2.8 million by 2020, according to new research sponsored by the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Research Institute for Housing America. According to the

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