According to the Federal Housing Finance Agency, foreclosure prevention actions at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have fallen for the fifth-straight month. These foreclosure preventions include loan modifications or repayment

Prices for condos in downtown Miami have risen 14 percent year-over-year while the sales have decreased by more than half in the first

According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) the number of existing home sales in the U.S. has risen 3.7 percent between February and March. The numbers are still lower than they were a year-ago due to buyers having

According to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey, the number of applications for mortgages increased by 5.3 percent from last

Home construction may still be at low-levels, but the market is improving with 549,000 new housing starts in March of this

A South Florida-based private equity firm U.S. Debt Ventures (USDV) bought $500 million worth of bad home loans on Monday, April 18th, from around the

Real estate site Zillow, Inc. officially announced that it is selling its common stock. The company filed a registration statement with the SEC for an initial public offering (IPO) today. This long-awaited announcement does not include the number of

Real estate investors now play a critical role in the housing market recovery. They account for one million homes sold in the U.S. in 2010, according to the National Association of Realtors

Sales expectations for homebuilders dropped in April 2011, as reported by Bloomberg today. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo sentiment index is currently at 16, a drop of one point since March, which reflects a poor outlook for

Richard C. Davis, a South Carolina real estate broker with a specialty in flipping homes, won a $4 million court appeal against A&E’s “Flip This House,” a TV series he appeared on during its first

RealtyTrac released Wednesday its U.S. Foreclosure Market Report for the first quarter of 2011, which shows foreclosure filings were reported at a 15 percent decrease from the previous quarter and a 27 percent decrease from the first quarter of

As things heat up outside this spring season, so does activity in the real estate market. Despite the spike in demand for existing properties, though, many sellers are finding that to generate interest they must price their homes

The latest National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) Remodeling Market Index (RMI) edged up to 41.5 in the fourth quarter of 2010, compared to 40.8 in the third quarter. An RMI below 50 indicates that more remodelers say market

Clear Capital (www.clearcapital.com) released its monthly Home Data Index (HDI) Market Report, providing a granular analysis of how local markets performed compared to the national downward trend in home prices through November

In the Miami Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), the median sales price of single-family homes in October increased 12 percent to $199,100 from a year earlier, according to the MIAMI Association of Realtors and the Southeast Florida Multiple Listing Service

The Miami Association of Realtors, the largest local Realtor association in the nation, has elected Ralph De Martino, CRS, GRI, broker and president of Ocean International Realty, as its 2011 Residential President. He and the entire Board of Directors