When the housing bubble popped — in 2006, 2007, or 2008, depending on where you were — chances are that the value of your home took a nose dive. But who got hit worse, the top of the market or the bottom?
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Homebuyers: Don’t Get Sunk Early in the Mortgage Process
If you are interested in buying a home, chances are you need a mortgage — and the first step toward a mortgage is a prequalification (or its cousin, pre-approval) letter. You provide your lender with basic financial information, and in return you receive a written offer to provide you with financial backing for a home purchase.
Holiday Discounts on Real Estate: Homes with Million Dollar Discounts
Holiday season sales aren’t solely the province of electronics, sweaters and $2 toasters. Some of the biggest discounts out there are on a surprising sector of goods: luxury homes. Some of the priciest homes on the market are …
Foreclosure Timeline Lengthens to Record 21 Months
Increasingly in some states, foreclosure is like a Roach Motel: Houses come in, but they don’t get out. This has led to an egregious statistic in the new issue of Mortgage Monitor, a report from data-tracker LPS Applied …
Home Affordability Near Highest Level in 20 Years
It’s easy to drown in real estate statistics, but looking at “affordability” — the homes that someone on a median income could buy — is a fascinating gauge of housing markets. (Plus, it’s a statistic that can be fine-tuned to …
Pilgrims? Progress! Luxury Historic Homes for Sale in Plymouth, Mass.
It’s been nearly 400 years since the Mayflower landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts. As during the first Thanksgiving feast celebrated there, Plymouth remains the site of much abundance. We present a gallery of homes that prosperous …
Please, Stop Saying That Lending Standards Are Tight
The continued sluggishness of the residential real estate market is maddening and, very likely, holding back other sectors of the economy. We’d all like to find a solution, of course. But in our frustration, it seems, we have a …
Fewer Foreclosures Near Top Public Schools
A new analysis of foreclosures shows that the expression “safe as houses” could be expanded to “safe as houses in a really great school district.”
What the Government Could Still Do to Help Housing
Earlier this month, President Obama announced tweaks to the Home Affordable Refinance Program (or HARP), which was designed to help homeowners refinance underwater homes but so far had helped only 838,000 of the 5 million …
For Sale: The Homes of Hollywood’s Broken-Hearted
In the wake of Kim Kardashian’s divorce, there are a number of other fresh celebrity breakups that have resulted not only in broken hearts, but also in broken homes.
9 of the Priciest On-Sale Homes in America
See how the 1 percent lives in nine of the most expensive homes for sale across the country.
Would You Live Here? Real Life Haunted Homes For Sale
Haunted houses have been scaring us since Edgar Allen Poe wrote “The Fall of the House of Usher” in 1839. Almost every city has a big old house that children — and some grownups — think is haunted. Many kids earned their …