Though the housing market is recovering, first-time homebuyers have thus far been an absent component of that recovery; when will they return? The housing market may be showing its best signs of life in years, but one essential component

Housing inventory shortages have been an epic problem in some housing markets, but what neighborhoods in Miami are plagued by low inventory? Housing inventory in March was nearly 20 percent lower than a year ago, and though that’s the

What MLB baseball teams are surrounded by the most valuable real estate? And do their winning percentages influence the local real estate markets? It’s opening day for Major League Baseball, and Trulia, as it seems to do with just

Shadow inventory is down an impressive 28 percent from its 2010 peak, but do its effect still languish in certain markets? CoreLogic’s latest report on shadow inventory in the U.S., which surveyed the nation’s inventory of seriously delinquent, REO

The nation’s shrinking housing inventory has begun affecting pending home sales, the National Association of Realtors has reported. Pending home sales stalled a bit in February, as the nation’s shrinking housing inventory offered homebuyers fewer and fewer choices. The

A new Zaha Hadid-designed skyscraper in Downtown Miami is poised to reinvent the city’s skyline, along with boosting the city’s international renown. The One Thousand Museum luxury condominium, a skyscraper set to be constructed on Miami’s Biscayne Boulevard, is certainly

The spring homebuying season is an integral time for real estate, and Freddie Mac is predicting 2013’s will be good news all around. The last couple months, there have been repeated signs of a housing recovery. From rising home

Nationwide home prices continued to recover in January, but how did our local housing market perform by comparison? Miami home prices continued to keep pace with the housing recovery in January, according to the lastest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices from

The NAHB’s Improving Markets Index improved yet again in March, as more and more metropolitan areas join in on the recovery. The National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) Improving Markets Index expanded to 274 metropolitan markets in March, as more and

The Miami-Dade real estate market remained on solid footing in February, with home sales and prices continuing their positive trends. Real estate in Miami-Dade continued its stellar performance in February, with residential sales rising 6.5 percent over the previous

Negative equity remains a problem in the U.S. housing market, but as new research by CoreLogic shows, the situation is improving. Riding the wave of home-price increases, roughly 200,000 residential properties returned to a state of positive equity in

The news was uniformly positive in NAR’s latest existing-sales report, with sales and prices rising but what about housing inventory? Existing-home sales rose 10.2 percent in February year-over-year, while median price was up 11.6 percent according to the latest report

Home prices may be rising at a rapid rate, but they’ve done little to minimize the financial appeal of homeownership, according to a new study from Trulia. Trulia released its Winter 2013 Rents vs. Buy Report earlier today, and

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

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

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