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Going into the home-buying season in 2015, homebuyers can expect to find more homes on the market and less competition from all-cash bidders. Metros with the biggest jump over last year in low-end inventory are Las Vegas, with 66.9% more low-end homes on the market in December 2014 than December ...
01/23/2015
The number of mortgage loans that were 90 days or more overdue but not in foreclosure decreased by 31,000 month-over-month (and 148,000 year-over-year) down to 1.13 million. Foreclosure inventory continued its decline. As of the end of December, there were 820,o00 residential properties in some s...
01/23/2015
The Brookings study showed that home prices rose 22.6 percent year over year in the third quarter. That was No. 1 in the region, with Phoenix coming in second, at 18.1 percent, and it handily beat out the national average of 1.6 percent. READ MORE http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/trends-are...
01/22/2015
Nevada had the fifth-highest foreclosure rate in the nation in 2014, behind Florida, New Jersey, Maryland and Illinois, A 37% Drop Since 201, RealtyTrac reported. READ MORE http://vegasinc.com/business/real-estate/2015/jan/14/las-vegas-sees-foreclosure-rate-slide-2014/?_ga=1.74733650.1576155593.1...
01/22/2015
nationwide survey of real estate investors bidding on properties offered for auction during the fourth quarter of 2014 revealed that flipping was the preferred investing strategy over renting, according to Auction.com's Q4 2014 Real Estate Investor Activity Report. READ MORE http://dsnews.com/ne...
01/21/2015
Renting is expanding while homeownership is contracting Today investors are lucky. We indeed are living in a time where investors (by that definition) are lucky. Household formation is on the rise and the percentage of households that is choosing to rent is also increasing. This supply and demand...
01/20/2015
A first-look reading of the University of Michigan/Thomson Reuters consumer confidence index shows the measure climbed to 98.2 as of mid-January, up nearly five points from a final December reading of 93.6 and from a consensus forecast of 94.1 among economists polled by Thomson Reuters. READS MOR...
01/19/2015
1. The Federal Housing Administration's (FHA) announcement that it will lower insurance premiums to 0.85 percent annually: Historically considered one of the top resources for low-income and first-time homebuyers, FHA has fallen off in the past few years as it's been forced to raise premiums and...
01/19/2015
1. The Federal Housing Administration's (FHA) announcement that it will lower insurance premiums to 0.85 percent annually: Historically considered one of the top resources for low-income and first-time homebuyers, FHA has fallen off in the past few years as it's been forced to raise premiums and...
01/19/2015
1. The Federal Housing Administration's (FHA) announcement that it will lower insurance premiums to 0.85 percent annually: Historically considered one of the top resources for low-income and first-time homebuyers, FHA has fallen off in the past few years as it's been forced to raise premiums and...
01/18/2015