Latest housing market news for 2019. Home sales are up but can the national supply keep up with the demand from homebuyers? Home sales increased by 2.5 percent in July, according to the latest national housing market report by RE/MAX. The jump was enough to end nine months of year-over-year inventory growth as the number [...]
Real estate market 2019: Where are homes selling fast? Realtor.com looked at areas where homes had the most page views and the fewest days on the market. We’re in the middle of the 2019 real estate market and homes in these neighborhoods are selling much faster than the national median of 56 days on the [...]
Which housing market is the biggest real estate bubble? Depends on how you measure, and we won’t really know for sure until it pops. But according to the new UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index, Hong Kong faces the greatest risk of a housing bubble. Housing prices in the Hong Kong real estate market have [...]
Real estate is always on my mind and in this article, I take a look at the current state of the US real estate market and what factors may be contributing to odd selling behaviors in certain markets. As we drove around the North Shore of Chicago this weekend, home to some of the most [...]
Is now a good time to buy or sell my property? It depends, home values are rising, but sales of new single-family homes are declining and there's a lack of new construction. It was a mixed bag of real estate news last week, with some positive and negative signs for the housing industry. Sales of [...]
Buying a home is now more affordable than renting in most places, but there could be changes on the way. According to the ATTOM Data Solutions 2017 Rental Affordability Report, which analyzed data from 540 counties nationwide, buying a home is the more affordable housing option in 66 percent of the markets, up from 58 [...]
Most luxury homebuyers are looking for two amenities when they start house shopping. http://youtu.be/WMa_WPh9bD0 A survey by Realtor.com looked at what luxury homebuyers want the most in a house. The majority of respondents – 54 percent – said they wanted a chef’s kitchen. Another large group – 44 percent of people surveyed – said [...]
Lawrence Yun, Rick Sharga, Farnoosh Torabi and Jed Kolko join Ilyce to discuss real estate market trends and credit management on the Ilyce Glink Show on June 8, 2014 on WSB Radio. Ilyce’s show always contains various forms of real estate and credit advice but she has invited four intelligent and engaged professionals to talk [...]
You want to buy a foreclosure? Where have you been for the past five years? Foreclosures are definitely on the decline as fewer homeowners are defaulting on their mortgages. The backlogs of foreclosures that built up during the Robogate mess are largely depleted, and more and more homeowners who find themselves in financial trouble are [...]
Learning about real estate can be a long but rewarding process. Talk to a real estate agent about getting started in the real estate business. Q: What are some ways that an 18-year old individual can get started in real estate as a business? I want to learn everything I need to know about buying, [...]
