Jan 4th 2013 1:15PM
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 »
Oct 22nd 2012 7:45PM
Despite the many recent signs of life in the real estate market -- one possible explanation for why housing policy has remained largely absent from the presidential debates -- the reality is still grim. The market is far down from where it was in 2008, when the financial crisis was reaching its peak, let alone the days of... Continue Reading »
Mar 2nd 2012 12:45PM
WASHINGTON -- He predicted the tech-stock collapse. He foresaw the housing bust. So naturally, everyone wants to know what Robert Shiller thinks of today's stock prices, now perched at a four-year high. Or about the direction of home prices. Keep your hopes in check. Shiller is disinclined these days to offer specific... Continue Reading »
Jan 19th 2012 11:20AM
WASHINGTON -- Builders ended 2011 with a third straight year of dismal home construction and the worst on record for single-family home building. But improvement at the end of the year lifted hopes for a recovery. In December, builders broke ground on a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 657,000 homes, the Commerce... Continue Reading »
Jan 18th 2012 5:30PM
By Kerri Panchuk Improved employment figures and record home affordability levels could spawn a minor housing recovery this year, analyst Mark Fleming said Wednesday in the "CoreLogic MarketPulse" report. Fleming says that economic concerns peaked in the summer of 2011 when politicians were stuck wrangling over the... Continue Reading »
