Posts with tag Real Estate

There's a reason it's often the privileged who are flitting off to beach homes along the sandy coast of California: It's really expensive to own a home near the ocean. (Location, location, location comes with a high price, after all.) So you think you'd be able to afford the same lifestyle if you bought a beachside... Continue Reading »

Months before the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, the Texas city of Irving has announced that it will restore the home in which Lee Harvey Oswald slept on the night before the assassination. According to police, the "blanket-wrapped rifle" used in the assassination was stored inside the... Continue Reading »

By Christopher S. Rugaber WASHINGTON -- A measure of U.S. home prices rose 6.3 percent in October compared with a year ago, the largest yearly gain since July 2006. The jump adds to signs of a comeback in the once-battered housing market. Core Logic also said Tuesday that prices declined 0.2 percent in October from... Continue Reading »

By Christopher S. Rugaber WASHINGTON -- Home prices increased in September in most major U.S. cities, more evidence of a housing recovery that is providing a lift to the fragile economy. Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller reported Tuesday that its 20-city index of home prices rose 3 percent in September compared with the... Continue Reading »

This live chat has ended, but view it on video below. Go to the AOL Jobs Google+ page at 12:30 p.m. EST and join in our post-election Hangout! We'll have our staff answering your questions about what Obama's second term could mean for the future of housing, jobs, and the economy. Don't have a Google+ account? No problem!... Continue Reading »

By Christopher S. Rugaber WASHINGTON -- A measure of U.S. home prices jumped 5 percent in September compared with a year ago, the largest year-over-year increase since July 2006. The gain reported by CoreLogic offered more evidence of a sustainable housing recovery. The real estate data provider also said Tuesday that... Continue Reading »

People have tried crazy things to sell a house: throwing in a $1,000 bar tab with the home purchase, filming YouTube spoofs of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" and advertising a cheating husband's affair. But some use a much simpler tactic to get a home sold: They just have a little faith. In a real estate market still... Continue Reading »

Actor Ryan Phillippe has re-listed his Hollywood Hills home for $6.995 million. He purchased the home, called "Raising Zen," in 2008 after his divorce from actress Reese Witherspoon, but tried unsuccessfully to sell the house in 2010. Phillippe listed the home for $7.45 million but took it off the market in 2011 when it... Continue Reading »

House hunting on a budget isn't easy. To help, we found properties from all over the U.S., even in Hawaii, that all cost $150,000. Some are foreclosures, some are condos and some will simply blow you away. See the gallery and find out what kind of amazing properties $150K will get you! %Gallery-158849% Have... Continue Reading »

Don't call it a McMansion. This classic, $10.95 million Connecticut estate is tucked away on 109 acres of countryside in Sharon. Known as "The Colgate Estate", the house was designed by award winning architect J. William Cromwell Jr. for Romulus Riggs Colgate (not that Colgate) and his wife, Susan, in 1903. To add to the... Continue Reading »

When banks drag their feet in the loan process, most borrowers probably feel like there's little they can do to move things along. But one Georgia couple may have hit on a way for borrowers to get results. Ken and Meredith Williams launched a full-on social media onslaught -- capped by the lovable music video above --... Continue Reading »

Longing for a slice of la dolce vita but not quite ready to haul out and move to Italy? Then this stunning Tuscan-style villa could be the perfect home for you. This gated, 15,341-square-foot estate in The Woodlands, Texas, has just hit the market for $14 million -- somewhat pricey for a home in the greater Houston... Continue Reading »

As we all know by now, last weekend's predicted end of the world didn't happen. (In fact, in real estate terms it was just the opposite: data released Monday showed a spike in new home sales.) But the notion of the Rapture got our Daily Finance colleague Bruce Watson thinking about what would happen to all those homes left... Continue Reading »

Want to boost the price on your house? Go country. Commonly held wisdom is that a prestigious-sounding name can add value to a neighborhood or subdivision. Now the research proves it. Buyers are willing to pay a premium of 4.2 percent for a property with "country" in the name and an additional 5.1 percent for the phrase... Continue Reading »

Nearly two years since the Great Recession officially ended, the housing market still shows few signs of picking up. And it could get worse before it gets better. Looking further back, home prices have now hit their lowest point in two years, falling 0.7 percent below March 2009 levels, according to a recent report by... Continue Reading »