Oct 29th 2011 8:45AM
Unless you've been living in a cave for the past five years, word surely must have reached you that home values have been declining for a while. Yet 42 percent of the people polled by Zillow recently said they thought home values appreciate by 7 percent a year. Really, people? Even in a normal market, typical appreciation... Continue Reading »
Oct 25th 2011 9:30AM
WASHINGTON -- Home prices rose in August in half of major cities measured by a private survey, a sign that prices are stabilizing in some hard-hit portions of the country. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index showed Tuesday that prices increased in August from July in 10 of the 20 cities tracked. That marked the... Continue Reading »
Sep 27th 2011 4:36PM
WASHINGTON -- Home prices rose for a fourth straight month in most major U.S. cities in July, buoyed by seasonal buying. But the housing market remains depressed, and prices are expected to decline in the coming months. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index released Tuesday showed home prices increased in July from... Continue Reading »
Sep 22nd 2011 12:31PM
If you thought foreclosure signs were bad for home sales, wait till you get a load of this Brighton, Colo., homeowner's spray-painted disclaimer. Titus Terranova, the implausibly named homeowner whose property abuts a home for sale in the rural Colorado town, has taken it upon himself to give prospective buyers the lay of... Continue Reading »
Sep 19th 2011 5:10PM
The housing bubble burst may puncture the dreams of many students hoping to attend college. As housing prices rose from the late 1990s through 2006, many parents used their new-found wealth to send their children to college, according to a recent study by Cornell University economist Michael Lovenheim. Now, with housing... Continue Reading »
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