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Second Home Buyers Look for More Urban Environments

Oct 15, 2009
When Andy Bush went to market with the Walnut, a condo complex in Boulder, Colorado, he figured the buyers would be young single professionals and empty nesters. Instead many of the...

Could Home Prices See A Double-Dip?

Oct 13, 2009
Home price numbers have ended their free-fall, but a lot housing experts are still concerned about a possible double-dip. Integrated Asset Services, which tracks troubled properties, says its...

Jumbo Loan Rates Dip Below 6%, Lowest In Four Years

Oct 12, 2009
Mortgage interest rates are trending steadily downward. The research firm HSH reports that jumbo loans—those for higher-priced homes dipped below 6% for the first time since...

More Troubles At KB Home

Oct 12, 2009
Big builder KB Home revealed in a Securities Exchange Commission filing that the federal regulator is examining the company's accounting. The stock fell about 6% today. The filing doesn't offer much information. A spokesperson says: "KB...

Manhattan Apartments: Free Rent But Still Not Cheap

Sep 25, 2009
The analysts at the investment firm Sandler O’Neil recently did a tour of the Manhattan apartment market with some of the biggest publicly-traded management companies including Avalon Bay...

Q & A on New Home Buyer Tax Credit

Nov 6, 2009
The National Association of Realtors Web site has a nice Question & Answer section about the new credit The Realtors' spokesman tells me that the new credit will start tomorrow, not today. "We rechecked the effective date for the repeat buyer,"...

Who Qualifies for New Homebuyer Tax Credit?

Nov 6, 2009
Update: Just spoke with somebody at Sen. Chris Dodd's office. According to the senator's banking committee staff, you can qualify for the credit even if you signed a purchase contract before today's date. The important thing is that you close on the...

Home Buyers Doing More Shopping Than Buying

Nov 6, 2009
Move Inc., parent of Realtor.com, the online listing service for the National Association of Realtors, came out with its third quarter earnings yesterday. Sales were down 11% to $53 million. Although the company has been able to boost its cash flow...

Sorry Readers: Homebuyer Credit Not Retroactive

Nov 5, 2009
Update: Just heard from White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki. The start date for the new $6,500 credit for existing homeowners will take effect as soon as Obama signs the bill into law tomorrow (Nov. 6). Sorry for the confusion. And thanks to "Dean" whose...

Immigrants Still See Real Estate As A Path To Wealth

Nov 5, 2009
Waiting for a bus on my way to work I picked up a copy of the real estate sections of The Korea Times, a local newspaper serving the Korean community in Los Angeles. That’s right the real estate sections. There were two, a total of 32 pages of real...


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