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03/29/2016

I bought my first home with my now ex-husband in 2009 when the economy was just beginning to tank but before a slew of tighter lending restrictions came along. When we split in 2014, he assumed ownership of the home, and I became a renter once again.

Here's what I've learned so far about buying a home in 2016.

07/10/2013

Has your best chance at getting a great deal on your dream home or investment property passed you by?

Home buyers might have missed the market's bottom, but there's still plenty of time to hop in.

02/13/2013

Blackstone Group (BX) spent $2.7 billion last year to buy 17,000 single family homes, post-foreclosure, around the United States and plans to continue ramping up those efforts in 2013.

Hedge funds and private equity firms have been rushing in to buy up companies and assets in every part of the housing market supply chain.

10/17/2012

"That turn in the [housing] market is occurring now and it should become a boom by 2015. It will be powerful enough ... to lift the entire U.S. economy," said Roger Altman, chairman of Evercore Partners and former deputy Treasury secretary, in a column for the Financial Times.

Some believe the next housing boom is underway, which could take prices back to peak levels and double home building within a few years.

09/05/2012

In each of the last three years, home prices have increased in the spring and summer, when more people are buying homes, before giving back all of those gains and then some in the fall and winter, when activity cools.

In each of the last three years, home prices have increased in the spring and summer, when more people are buying homes, before giving back all of those gains and then some in the fall and winter. But it is beginning to look like that might not happen this year.

08/22/2012

Confidence among U.S. homebuilders climbed in August to the highest level in more than five years, affirming the improvement in residential construction.

08/02/2012

Home prices hit a bottom and are finally bouncing back, according to an industry report released yesterday.

Home prices nationwide have hit a bottom, and home values are finally on the rise.

07/28/2012

"Be the change you want to see." Seven words of power that can shift a mind-set into success!

Mahatma Gandhi said it best: "Be the change you want to see." Seven words of power that can shift a mind-set into success! In our one life that we have been given, we have the choice to live it fully empowered, motivated, strong, healthy and successful, or we can live it standing on the sidelines a...

07/27/2012

12 Go-To Apps for Real Estate Professionals

» 12 Go-To Apps for Real Estate Professionals

07/27/2012

Trulia, an online real estate listing service, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, becoming the latest company to take advantage of a new U.S. law.

Trulia, an online real estate listing service, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, becoming the latest company to take advantage of a new U.S. law, according to several sources familiar with the situation.

07/25/2012

Housing starts jumped 6.9% in June to a 3 ½-year high, underscoring the residential real estate's slow recovery as a bright spot in a sputtering economy.

Building permits for future construction of single-family homes edged up to the highest level since March 2010.

07/20/2012

The U.S. finally has moved beyond attention-grabbing predictions from housing "experts" that housing is bottoming. The numbers are now convincing.

The U.S. finally has moved beyond attention-grabbing predictions from housing experts that housing is bottoming. The housing market has turned—at last.