Home Values

One In Three Homeowners Owes Bank More Than Home Is Worth: Study

Loren Berlin | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Mortgages, Zillow, Home Values, Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Rates, Homeowners, Mortgage Debt, Underwater Homeowners, Underwater Mortgages, Money News

If you're looking for good news about the housing market, you're going to have to wait awhile longer, as new research continues to paint a grim pictur...

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How Property Taxes Climb, Even If Home Value Drops

www.npr.org | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Property Taxes, Shaker Heights, Npr, Homeowners, Homeownership, Ohio, Cleveland Ohio, Home Values, Fifty News

Millions of homeowners are finding out that their property taxes are either holding steady or climbing, even as their houses may be worth much less. T...

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Foreclosures Taking Nearly Three Times As Long To Process As In 2007

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Video, Foreclosure Crisis, Mortgage Lenders, Housing Prices, Housing Sector, Robo-Signing, Home Prices, Housing Industry, Home Values, Mortgage Crisis, Foreclosure, Real Estate, Big Banks, Home Foreclosures, Business News

If the American housing market is ever to recover -- and provide some momentum to a broader economic turnaround -- it needs to work its way through th...

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Can Homophobia Reduce Your Home Equity?

Gary J. Gates | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Home Values, Gays Home Value, Lgbt, Gays Neighborhood Value, Gays Property Value, Same-Sex Couples, Gay Voices News
Gary J. Gates

The story goes that when gay people move into an area, they spruce up the place, attract some nice coffee shops, wine bars, and restaurants, and eventually transform urban grit to trendy chic. But new research suggests that there's more to the story.

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WATCH: Arianna Highlights Benefits Of 'Right To Rent' Proposal

Huff TV | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Housing Market, Foreclosure Crisis, Right to Rent, Home Values, Business News, Foreclosure, Arianna Huffington, Housing Crisis, Home Foreclosures, Video, Business News
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Arianna discussed a proposal that aims to help foreclosed homeowners stay in their homes, in an appearance on ABC News. "I have a favorite good idea...

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As Foreclosures Drive Prices Down, Officials Grasp For Solutions

Posted 12.21.2011

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As the housing market continues to weigh on the economic recovery, politicians are debating the best way to clear a glut of foreclosed properties off ...

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Underwater Mortgages Are Sinking Home Values:

24/7 Wall St. | Posted 09.02.2011

Read More: Mortgages, Foreclosure Crisis, Great Recession, Economic Crisis, Home Values, Business News, Foreclosure, Real Estate, Housing Crisis, Underwater Mortgages, Business News

The underwater mortgage problem will probably deteriorate before it improves. Home inventory level is still at an extraordinary high. The Wall Street ...

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10 Worst U.S. Cities for Renters

AOL Real Estate | Stefanos Chen | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Akron, Orlando, Mcallen, Cities Rent, Home Values, Rent Buy Cities, Underwater Mortgages, Worst Cities Rent, Home News

After the housing bubble burst, thousands of families found themselves saddled with underwater mortgages, peak interest rates and a serious shortage o...

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BofA CEO: Some People Shouldn't Think Of Their Home As An Asset

Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: National Association of Attorneys General, Brian Moynihan, Bank of America, Home Values, Real Estate, Home Prices, Buying a Home, BofA CEO, Business News

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (By Joe Rauch) - U.S. homeowners may need to look elsewhere for long-term investment returns as housing prices in some a...

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CHART: Where Will The Housing Market Impact Congressional Elections?

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Housing Market, Zillow, Housing Markets by Congressional District, Elections 2010, Home Values, Congressional Districts, Real Estate, Democrats, Worst Housing Markets, Republicans, Business News

This year's election slogan may just be "It's the housing market, stupid." Anyone who's followed politics over the last several months has undoubtedl...

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William Alden

Home Prices Could Drop For The Next Three Years

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Housing Market, Housing Prices, Tax Credits, Home Sales, President Obama, Mortgage Crisis, Fannie Mae, Tax Credit, Home, Housing Crisis, Barack Obama, Housing Slump, House, Bloomberg, Mortgages, Mortgage, Loan Modifications, Default, Home Market, Home Prices, Home Values, Foreclosure, Moody's, Business News

Thinking about buying a home? You might want to proceed cautiously. The housing market may continue to decline, potentially for at least three more ye...

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Baby Boomers Delay Retirement And Cities Gain, Census Reports

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Baby Boomers, Retirement, Economy, Pensions, Retirement Homes, Retirement Communities, South, Census, Big Cities, Unemployment, West, 401k, Home Values, Real Estate, Vacation Homes, Business News

WASHINGTON — Battered by recession, more older Americans are staying put in traditional big cities to hold onto jobs, creating slowdowns in popu...

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Denver Home Values Increased More Than Any U.S. Metro Area In 2009: Zillow.Com

The Denver Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Denver Home Values, Zillow.com, Twin Lakes, Boston, Home Values, Colorado, Westminster, Real Estate, Meridian, Denver, Indian Hills, New York, Thornton, Denver News

Denver and its suburbs recorded the biggest dollar gain in home values of any metro area in the country last year, according to Zillow.com, an online ...

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December Home Sales Take Largest Monthly Drop In More Than 40 YEARS

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Sales of previously occupied homes took the largest monthly drop in more than 40 years last month, sinking more dramatically than e...

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Foreclosures Growing In Housing Market's Top Tiers

Wall Street Journal | NICK TIMIRAOS | Posted 05.25.2011

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About 30% of foreclosures in June involved homes in the top third of local housing values, up from 16% when the foreclosure crisis began three years a...

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Home Prices Are Stablizing, But Foreclosures Still Account For 20 Percent Of Sales: Zillow

Posted 05.25.2011

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CNBC: On the way down and on the way up, home prices always lag sales, but they may be beginning to catch up. A new report from Zillow.com finds home...

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Home Values Fall By $489 Billion In U.S., Show Slowing Decline: Zillow

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Home Prices, Zillow, Real Estate, Home Values, Stan Humphries, Business News

A note to homeowners: the calamitous decline in your home's value during the last year may be slowing. In a new report, the real estate data website...

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Home Prices Cut By $28.4 Billion In U.S., Trulia Says

bloomberg.com | Daniel Taub | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Association of Realtors, Mortgages, Home Prices, Home Values, Mortgage Crisis, Real Estate, Truilia, Business News

Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. home sellers cut their asking prices by a total of $28.4 billion to attract buyers as the real estate recovery stalled, Tru...

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Foreclosures Weighing On Home Appraisals

AP | ALEX VEIGA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, National Association of Realtors, San Diego, Real Estate Prices, Home Prices, Real Estate Agents, Home Sales, Home Values, Home Appraisals, Las Vegas, Short Sales, Business News

LOS ANGELES — It wasn't the first time that Katherine Scheri ruined a real estate agent's day with a low property appraisal. Scheri, a real est...

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Home Prices: Case-Shiller Index Up For Third Straight Month In August

AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Home prices rose in August for the third straight month, a rapid pace of recovery that surprised economists and raised questions abou...

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Case-Shiller September: Home Prices Rise For 4th Month In A Row

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The summer's trend of rising home prices faded at the end of the traditional home shopping season, two reports Tuesday showed. The...

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Americans' Net Worth Up For 2nd Straight Quarter

AP | DANIEL WAGNER and DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Standard and Poor's 500 Index, Bank Accounts, Second Quarter, Net Worth, Home Values, Americans' Net Worth, Economic Recovery, Investments, Business News

WASHINGTON — Inch by inch, Americans are recovering some of their vast loss of wealth from the recession, thanks to gains in stock investments a...

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Arthur Delaney

Making Home Affordable: 12 Percent Of Eligible Borrowers Helped So Far

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Making Home Affordable, Home Values, Housing Crisis, Recession, Business News

Twelve percent of distressed homeowners eligible for mortgage modifications under the Obama administration's signature effort to reduce foreclosures h...

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Three Things Still Wrong With the Housing Market

Charlie Farrell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgage Rates, Housing, Tax Incentives, Home Values, Tax Credits, Business News
Charlie Farrell

We've gotten a bit of good news lately on the housing front with more new home sales and a slight bump in home prices, but the market is still completely dysfunctional.

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20 Top Housing Markets: How's Your City Doing?

businessinsider.com | Henry Blodget and Kamelia Angelova|Jul. 1, 2009, 6:48 PM|19 | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Real Estate Crisis, Real Estate Prices, Real Estate Crash, Home Prices, Home Values, Case-Shiller Index, Silicon Alley Insider, Business News

The rate of crash for real-estate prices nationwide has finally begun to moderate. Specifically, it dropped from -19% a year in March to -18% a year ...

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