Real Estate Prices

What Would the White House Cost if it Were in Your Backyard?

David J. Cross | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: White House Worth, White House, Movoto, Koitz Group, Real Estate Prices, Value of White House, Home Prices, Cost of White House, The White House, DC News

The White House would be among the most expensive homes in the United State if it were to be listed on the open market.

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Yet Another Advantage To Being Beautiful

The Huffington Post | Emma Gray | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Real Estate Study, Real Estate Agents Gender, Housing Prices, Advantages of Beauty, Real Estate Agents Attractiveness, Real Estate Prices, Real Estate Agents, Beauty Salary, Attractiveness Salary, Real Estate Agents Race, Women News

The economy may not be the only thing determining your home's sale price. According to a new study, how attractive your real estate agent is can have ...

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Real Estate Deals A Double Blow To Small Businesses

HuffingtonPost.com | Janean Chun | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Randy Truckenbrodt, Real Estate Prices, Randall-Industries, Nfib, Small Business News and Trends, Small Business Real Estate, National Federation of Independent Business, Small Business Real Estate Owners, Small Business News

Randy Truckenbrodt has just as many headaches as he does properties. The co-owner of Randall Industries, an Elmhurst, Ill.-based company that rents an...

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She Who Hesitates, Rents

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Intereste-Rates, New York Home Prices, Long Island, Mortgages, Home Buyers, Real Estate Prices, New York Real Estate, Home Sales, Real Estate, Renters, Mortgage Refinancing, Home Foreclosures, Home Sellers, New York News

The woman was fidgety as she shared her qualms about buying a house. More than once she said, "I know this doesn't make total sense..." as she discussed the reasons for her reluctance.

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IMF: Potential Chinese Housing Bubble Remains Cause For Concern

Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Housing Market, Britain, Yuan, Government Debt, Beijing, Renminbi, Real Estate Prices, Inflation, International Monetary Fund, Euro Zone, Nigel Chalk, Exchange Rate, Imf, Japan, China, Housing Bubble, Business News

The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday it remains concerned with the potential for a property price bubble in China even though the cou...

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U.S. Home Values Predicted To Fall By 1.7 TRILLION This Year

bloomberg.com | Hui-yong Yu and Jon Gittelsohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Zillow, Foreclosure Crisis, US Home Values, Real Estate Prices, Home Prices, Home Sales, Business News

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. home values are poised to drop by more than $1.7 trillion this year amid rising foreclosures and the expiration of homebuye...

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4 Things Home Sellers Need To Know In 2011

walletpop.com | Tara-Nicholle Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Mortgages, Real Estate, Buying a Home, Selling a Home, Real Estate Prices, Home Prices, Selling a Home 2011, Business News

Past is prologue, they say. And that's certainly true when looking forward to what the housing market will hold for home sellers next year. WalletPop'...

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The Best & Worst Run States: 24/7 Wall Street

24/7 Wall St. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: State Budgets, Best Run States, State Budget Cuts, State Debt, Real Estate Prices, Unemployment by States, Worst Run States, Best State Governments, Business News

How well run are America's fifty states? 24/7 Wall St. has taken several months to consider that question. Our writers looked at hundreds of data sets...

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Housing Authority Board Member Pays Only $250 To Live In The East Village

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manhattan Rental Market, East Village, Rent Prices, Real Estate Prices, Rent, NY Real Estate, Price to Live in New York City, News, New York News

The Post is reporting on an all-women building in the East Village whose most notable tenant, Housing Authority board member Margarita Lopez, paid an ...

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Nearly One Quarter Of Mortgage Borrowers Owe More Than Their Home Is Worth

DailyFinance | CHARLES HUGH SMITH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Real Estate, Corelogic, Real Estate Prices, Home Prices, Underwater Mortgages, Negative Equity, Business News

By the end of the first quarter of 2010, the number of mortgaged residential properties with negative equity had declined slightly to 11.2 million, do...

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Housing Market Stumbles As Construction Approaches 'World War II Lows'

wsj.com | By NICK TIMIRAOS and ROBBIE WHELAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Real Estate Market, Housing Market, Housing, Single-Family Homes, Real Estate Prices, Home Prices, U.S. Housing Market, Home Construction, Business News

In major markets across the country, home sales are deteriorating, inventories of unsold homes are piling up and builders are scaling back constructio...

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Mortgage Rates Are At Record-Lows -- So Why Is The Housing Market Slumping?

washingtonpost.com | Dina ElBoghdady | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Association of Realtors, Housing Market, Unemployment, Real Estate Prices, Home Prices, Mortgage Rates, Real Estate, Business News

The sudden weakness in residential real estate has struck nearly every region of the country, according to recent government and industry data, drivin...

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7 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Buy a Home

DailyFinance | JAMES ALTUCHER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosure, Real Estate, Buying a Home, Real Estate Prices, Home Prices, Business News

This article is going to be a contradiction. After the fall that housing has suffered, I think that that, as an asset class, housing will probably be ...

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Slicing Away Some of Suburbia

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Attorneys, Suburbs, Small Business, Tenants, Real Estate Prices, Small Business Failure, Real-Estate-Values, Renegotiations, Commercial Real Estate, New York, Landlords, Business News

The disappearance of another pizza parlor shouldn't have had much of an impact on me. What's bothering me is that there are proprietors failing in just about every business area around town.

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10 Cities Where Sellers SLASHED Home Prices In June (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Real Estate Prices, Boston, Minneapolis, Tucson, Home Prices June, Dallas, Memphis, Home Prices, Trulia, Phoenix Real Estate, Baltimore, Business News

If you're looking for a home in Boston, Phoenix Baltimore, Dallas or Minneapolis, we have some good news. For the second month in a row, home sellers ...

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Home Prices Rise For The First Time In 7 Months

HuffPost/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Case-Shiller Index April 2010, Case-Shiller Index, Real Estate Prices, Home Prices, Business News

A good sign for the real estate market: The widely-watched Case-Shiller index shows that home prices rose for the first time in seven months, buoyed b...

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Eye-popping U.S. Prices Force Americans Southward

Bob Wells | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Real Estate Prices, South, Migration, Traveling South, The Balanced Life, How to Move, American Prices, South America, Ex Pats South America, Moving, Traveling to South America, Healthy Living News

You have to be willing to learn Spanish and, yes, overlook poverty, stray dogs and other inevitable challenges of being an expat. But in return, you're in a New World.

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Existing Home Sales Fall 7.2% In January, Weakest Result Since June

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Association of Realtors, Existing Home Sales, Existing Home Sales January, Real Estate Prices, Home Prices, Home Sales, Business News

WASHINGTON — Sales of previously owned homes plunged in January to their lowest level since summer, evidence that high unemployment and tight le...

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John Paulson's Real Estate Bet: Hedge Fund Billionaire To Buy

Reuters | Helen Chernikoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Paulson Hedge Fund, John Paulson, John Paulson Real Estate, Real Estate Prices, Nevade, Arizona, Tousa, Colorado, Business News

A real estate recovery fund backed by Paulson will, with court approval, be the first bidder on a portfolio of land assets up for auction from bankrup...

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The Best Performing Housing Markets In The Last Year (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, Best Housing Markets, Housing Prices, Real Estate Prices, Home Prices, Case Shiller Index, Best Performing Housing Markets, Business News

Before you get too excited about a nationwide housing recovery, let's remember that "best" in this case is a relative term. If your local housing mar...

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The Worst Performing Housing Markets Over The Last Year (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Housing Market, Real Estate Prices, Case Shiller Index, Real Estate Values, Slidepoll, Hottest Real Estate Markets, Business News

Where does your local market stand in the protracted, multi-year housing correction? First, the bad news. Only six of the 20 major real estate marke...

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Elkhart, Ind.: How One Town Relies On The Government's Enormous Support For The Housing Market

nytimes.com | DAVID STREITFELD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Indiana Real Estate, Federal Housing Administration, Mortgage, Real Estate Prices, Elkhardt Indiana, Real Estate Market, Fha, Foreclosure, Home Loans, Business News

More than one in 10 mortgage holders in Elkhart is seriously behind on payments. The median sales price has plunged to the level of a decade ago. Many...

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Home Prices Wil Rise 4% In 2010, Say Realtors

AP | ALEX VEIGA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Association of Realtors, Housing Market, First-Time Homebuyers Credit, Subprime Mortgages, Nar, Real Estate Prices, Home Prices, Lawrence Yun, Mortgage Crisis, Real Estate, Business News

SAN DIEGO — Home prices are expected to grow modestly next year and sales will keep rising as the housing market continues to recover from the worst...

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

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgages, Real Estate Prices, Home Prices, Home Market, Home Values, Most Expensive Zip Codes, Hottest Zip Codes, Real Estate, Business News

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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