Category Archives: Real Estate News

One Overlooked Fact About the Housing Recovery

As federal regulators and banks argue over whether new lending standards will make mortgage credit too tight or too expensive, one important fact about the housing market goes largely overlooked: More than 20 million American homeowners own their homes outright. … Continue reading

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Meet America’s New Landlords: REITs

To see that growth, look no further than Edelheit’s brand new Atlanta office space, where he now employs 150 workers full-time and hundreds more part-time. His REIT owns close to 2000 properties in Georgia, North Carolina and Florida, and they … Continue reading

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Banks Pay Big for Robo-Signing…Again

The settlement is the result of an independent foreclosure review ordered by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in 2011. It required banks to hire independent auditors to go back over loans from 2009 and 2010 to look … Continue reading

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Already Time to Throw Up Caution Signs on Housing?

Fitch contends that home prices remain overvalued and that price growth is not being driven by fundamentals but by technical factors that could easily change. As more homes move more quickly to final foreclosure, especially in states that require a … Continue reading

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Manhattan Property Sales Spike on Fears of Tax Hikes

The price gains, however, were largely on the luxury end. In looking at the median prices, where half sell for higher and half sell for lower, prices for co-ops were up just 2.1 percent in the fourth quarter. Condominium prices … Continue reading

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