News & Commentary: Daily News Articles
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07/11/2012
Home sales and home equity inched higher last month, showing greater signs of stability in real estate. But the market still has a long way to go toward recovery, according to the Obama administration’s latest Housing Scorecard.
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07/11/2012
An unpaid tax bill of just $400 could cost you your entire home in some states. A new report is calling such growing cases a second “foreclosure crisis.”
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07/11/2012
The new-home sector is showing signs of picking up, but homebuilders say they’re increasingly concerned that they won’t be able to find enough skilled laborers to meet the rising demand.
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07/11/2012
Record-low mortgage rates likely were behind an increase last week in mortgage applications for home purchases, viewed as an important gauge of home sales.
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07/11/2012
Obama administration officials and lawmakers say AIG's mortgage insurer is hampering efforts to refinance government-insured mortgages.
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07/10/2012
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking public comment on redesigned mortgage forms that set out to help buyers better understand the costs and risks of getting a home loan. What do you think?
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07/10/2012
More individual housing markets are regaining “their footing despite some recent reports of weakening in the broader economy,” says NAHB’s Chief Economist.
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07/10/2012
While Americans are more pessimistic about the direction of the economy, their optimism regarding the housing market continues to grow, according to a new report.
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07/10/2012
If New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg gets his wish, apartment sizes in the Big Apple may get even smaller.
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07/10/2012
“You need to approach [phone] photography as photography; a good photo is a good photo no matter what equipment you take it with,” says a photographer.
