Before the recession, “squatting” brought to mind Appalachian-style family feuds, wherein the Hatfields camped out for years on end, shotguns cocked, on a remote corner of the McCoy’s acreage., or maybe starving artist
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Real Estate Markets
The Real Problem in the Latest Housing Stats
The National Association of Realtors released its July report on housing on Thursday. Considering it’s back-to-school time, let’s take a quiz: The most interesting statistic in the report is …
ForSaleByOwner.com Founder Sells Condo — Using Real Estate Agent
Correction: An earlier version of this article mistakenly identified Colby Sambrotto as a founder of FSBO.com. In fact, he is a founder of ForSaleByOwner.com.
They’re known as “FSBOs” — properties that are For Sale By Owner. Every year, hundreds of thousands of properties are listed, not by real estate agents, but by the owners …
Why the Fed Announcement Won’t Boost the Housing Market
The Federal Reserve’s announcement this week that it would keep a key interest rate near zero seemed designed to be a chill pill — a way to calm jittery stock market investors by showing that it recognized, and was trying to manage, economic weakness. Whether the announcement was good for real estate is another story.
U.S. Senator Proposes Renting Out Foreclosures
There’s an old Lily Tomlin joke where she says, “Wouldn’t it be great if all the people in New York who talk to themselves were paired off, so it looks like they’re talking to each other?”
In a similar spirit, apparently, …
Are Cash Buyers Making Real Estate Less Risky?
One of the biggest risks to the housing market, many economists have been noting, is the virtual certainty that interest rates will rise, and probably sooner than most people think.
Farewell to ARMs: The Debt Debacle Should Convince Homeowners To Lock In Their Rates
The debt drama's potential to cause the first large rate hikes in several years should scare some borrowers off from increasingly popular adjustable rate mortgages – but will it?
Top 10 Most Spectacular Beach Homes
TopTenRealEstateDeals.com presents 2011's Top 10 Coolest Beach Homes currently for sale on the U.S. market.
Are Luxury Condos Back?
10 Things That Are Actually Getting Cheaper
We live in a time when the costs of things like gas and gold have soared, just as a laundry list of everyday expenses such as coffee, rent, health care, used cars, and bacon are approaching or have already reached all-time high …
June Home Sales Disappoint (But Housing Starts Are Up)
Sales of previously owned U.S. homes (which make up the majority of the real estate on the market) were running at a disappointing 4.77 million annual rate in June, according to the latest release from the National Association of …
Poll: What Should We Do to Revive the Housing Sector?
With the newest data on home sales out Wednesday, one thing is clear: The volume of current real estate activity is not what many players hoped it would be.
