By Jeff Brown Sick of the cold? Maybe you should buy a place in Florida, where temperatures are warm and the housing market is heating up. The cold snap gripping much of the country is surely prodding many to dream of owning a second home someplace warm, or of moving there for good. Data show that Florida's housing ... Continue Reading »

Now is the bargain real estate season: asking home prices typically hit their seasonal low point from November through January. This winter, however, home price discounts are harder to find. Among all non-foreclosure homes for sale on Trulia in early January, 33.6 percent of homes were priced lower than their original ... Continue Reading »

The only thing more terrifying than a haunted house? A housing boom. So says one Hong Kong man who told The Wall Street Journal that since real estate prices have spiked there, buying a good old-fashioned horror house sure isn't what it used to be. You see, stigmatized properties -- such as where a previous tenant or ... Continue Reading »

The nationwide housing market is now in full recovery mode after suffering greatly during and following the market meltdown, and it's believed that 2013 will be a big year for many markets. However, some cities did much better than others, according to data from the real estate tracking firm Trulia, with the best housing ... Continue Reading »

You'd never dream of buying a home without seeing it (in person) first, right? Well, there are other buyers who move much more quickly -- so fast, in fact, that they sign on the dotted line before they've even toured the house. Foreign investors are so anxious to snag real estate deals in the U.S. -- before the housing ... Continue Reading »

There have been numerous signs of a general recovery in the housing market after the significant downturn of a few years ago, but data suggests that a full recuperation is now underway and should continue throughout the year. There should be an appreciable improvement in property values across the top 100 metro areas ... Continue Reading »

By Mamta Badkar The U.S. housing market turned the corner in 2012. The latest home price report from Trulia says home prices were up 5.1 percent year-over-year nationally. And the pace of increases also picked up in 2012. With home prices up 0.8 percent quarter-over-quarter in the first quarter, and up 2.3 percent in ... Continue Reading »

Among renters who one day hope to own a home, a poll finds a dramatic increase in the number who now say that they intend to buy in the near future. Offering more evidence of a swing toward homeownership as the housing market continues to recover, the survey by PulteGroup reports that about 6 in 10 of those renters plan on ... Continue Reading »

One year ago, I wrote: "Even the best possible 2012 won't get us halfway back toward normal." That turns out to be true, but barely: the latest Trulia Housing Barometer, for October, showed us that the market is 47 percent back to normal. And this year, we launched the Trulia Price Monitor -- which revealed back in March ... Continue Reading »

But does halfway back to normal mean the glass is half-full or half-empty? Continue Reading »

2012 will probably be considered the year that a sinking housing market finally hit bottom and began to rise again. Home prices, home sales and new home construction all substantially increased amid shrinking inventory and record-low mortgage rates. Adding to the drama (and perhaps aiding the recovery): Lenders finally ... Continue Reading »

As the international economy lags, mainstream property prices are flagging around the world, according to Knight Frank's latest global house price index. The index rose just 1 percent year-over-year in the third quarter of 2012. Price growth in Asia is slowing, and the 12 countries at the bottom of the list are all in ... Continue Reading »

By Michele Lerner Want to be a real estate mogul but without the hassle of directly owning property? Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs, offer a simpler -- and safer -- way to reap the benefits of a diversified real estate portfolio through owning shares of a portfolio of property. REITs, which are publicly ... Continue Reading »

According to RealtyTrac, these 10 states have the best bang for your buck when it comes to buying foreclosures. Continue Reading »

By Ciaran Giles Looking for a new place to call home? Spain is hoping to give you a little bit more than a welcome basket of baked goods if you decide to move there. In an attempt to reduce the country's bloated stock of unsold homes, the government is set to offer permanent residency to any foreigner, provided they ... Continue Reading »