By Natalie Terchek According to the results of the most recent SOBE Luxury Homes Trend Report for Fourth Quarter of 2012, it appears as though the Miami real estate market is off to a strong

By Peter Ricci The National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) Improving Markets Index expanded to 259 metropolitan markets in February, according to the latest tally from the NAHB. That’s up from 242 in January, and all 50 states now

By Peter Ricci Home prices rose a robust 8.3 percent year-over-year in December according to the latest CoreLogic Home Price Index. That’s the biggest increase since May 2006 and the 10th consecutive monthly increase for the Home Price Index;

The Miami Association of Realtors (MAR) elected Natascha Tello of Keller Williams Realty Partners SW at its 2013 chairman of the board. Last week, both Tello and the entire board of directors were installed at MAR’s Annual Inaugural & Awards

By Peter Ricci A number of prominent economic analysts are anticipating good things for the housing market in the coming months, with home prices, mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures all moving in positive territories and further strengthening the already recovering

Asking prices increased 5.9 percent year-over-year in January in the latest Trulia Price Monitor, an assessment of all the asking prices on the website’s

By Peter Ricci Despite a recession, economic adversity has done little to quell the passion of real estate professionals for their industry. According to the newest survey by WorkPlace Dynamics on U.S. businesses and industries, real estate was the nation’s best

By Peter Ricci Construction spending increased 9.2 percent in 2012, according to the latest analysis by the U.S. Census Bureau, closing out what has been the most positive year for the construction industry in the post-bubble housing

By Peter Ricci Foreclosure inventory fell in 2012 from 1.5 million homes to 1.2 million, a 19.5 percent decline that further demonstrates the progress the U.S. real estate made last year, according to the latest National Foreclosure Report from

By Peter Ricci The nation’s largest homebuilders, including D.R. Horton, Ryland Group and PulteGroup, reported very promising four quarter, offering the strongest confirmation yet that the U.S. housing construction sector has turned the

By Peter Ricci In an effort to shore up its troubled finances, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has announced several changes to how it manages its loans, including increasing the mortgage insurance premiums for new

By Peter Ricci Another day, another hugely optimistic analysis for rental demand in the U.S. real estate market. FirstService Residential Realty, the nation’s largest residential single-family property management company according to HousingWire, is the latest to throw its hat

By Peter Ricci Everywhere you look nowadays, the housing market is showing improvement. Home prices are increasing, home sales and housing inventory are stabilizing and even homebuilding is beginning to pick up. Yet, amidst all those signs of recovery,

By Peter Ricci The housing market’s effect on the general economy – or, the “spillover effect,” as its called by some – is often the trump card among housing analysts when debating the merit of real estate, the fact

By Peter Ricci Miami home prices were among the strongest in the nation in the November Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, increasing 0.8 percent from October to November and 9.9 percent from November 2011, according to the latest release from Standard &

By Peter Ricci The Realtor Party was something new from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Though the famously democratic group was already one of the most active lobbying groups in the U.S., the Realtor Party made the association’s