Reuters | Posted 05.20.2012
* Hedge funds, private equity firms eye single-family homes * Fannie's 2,500 pilot offering drawing out bidders * Skepti...
HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.14.2012
Everyone knows the economy has been rough on homeowners lately. But for people who rent -- especially for people who rent and don't make very much mon...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 04.28.2012
WASHINGTON — The government is looking to sell off some of its stock of homes in foreclosure. The Federal Housing Finance Agency has control ov...
HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 01.20.2012
Housing investors and advocates are embracing a new strategy to keep struggling borrowers in their homes: Purchasing houses from homeowners who can no...
HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.18.2012
Although the recession has officially been over for two years, the worst may be to come for many people. Job losses rose during the last few years....
HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 01.06.2012
The Federal Reserve's foreclosure rental program would do little to lift the ailing housing market, Goldman Sachs analysts wrote in a research paper r...
HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 01.06.2012
While millions of foreclosed homes languish on the market at lower and lower prices, new data supports the idea that renting out these foreclosed home...
Reuters | Posted 03.05.2012
* Vacancies at lowest level since late '01 * Effective rents on the rise * Rate expected to fall further this year ...
Posted 12.27.2011
(MARGARET CHADBOURN, Reuters) - Brian Keith is busier than ever as the architecture firm he works for rushes to wrap up work on a 300-unit apartme...
Jed Kolko | Posted 01.30.2012
Renting out REO properties would be a drop in the bucket -- it wouldn't clear much of the housing inventory and wouldn't ease rising urban rents, but it would help shore up neighborhoods where housing prices took the biggest slide, and that makes it worthwhile.
Posted 11.18.2011
The U.S. apartment market has recovered and is expanding, with vacancies expected to remain steady at 5.5 percent in 2012 and then fall below pre-...
Posted 10.16.2011
As Chicago's real estate market continues to turn away from condominiums and toward apartments, demand for (and, therefore, the price of) apartments i...
Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 10.02.2011
Until recently, Airbnb was not tossed around in the average news cycle. However, since a story recently broke about malicious use of rented property and Airbnb's apparent woeful management of the crisis, the name is everywhere... and not in a good way.
Reid Cramer | Posted 09.25.2011
Today, we spend roughly $30 billion dollars a year in rental housing assistance to benefit almost 5 million households. It is a primary part of our social safety net. But millions of eligible families don't receive any support.
Nicholas Carroll | Posted 07.27.2011
News frequently portrays inability to rent as one of the gloom-and-doom scenarios awaiting people who have been through a foreclosure. In my surveys around the U.S., I'm not seeing this.
HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Bindley | Posted 11.25.2011
If you're thinking about apartment hunting in Manhattan right now, my first suggestion would be: don't. My second suggestion would be: if you must mov...
HuffingtonPost.com | Yepoka Yeebo | Posted 06.26.2011
NEW YORK -- Around 10 million American households -- or one in every four families that rent their homes -- could have to choose between paying rent, ...
Jeanne Kelly | Posted 11.17.2011
It came as big news to me earlier this year when I heard that Experian would now be reporting rental payments. Folks have often said to me that they ...
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 11.17.2011
I earn a living representing buyers and sellers of real estate, so discouraging a client from entering into a transaction was certainly against my interests.
Posted 05.25.2011
Rent, or buy? Buy or rent?? We know you think this when you shave, when you jog, when you commute, when you everything. Luckily, Trulia.com just po...
Crain's New York Business | Posted 05.25.2011
In the priciest sign to date that the luxury rental market is on fire, last week seven apartments at the Waldorf-Astoria were rented to the Saudi roya...
The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011
The best time to sign a lease may have just passed, as the apartment rental market has strengthened, Bloomberg reports. Good news for landlords, bad n...
Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011
Times are tight and these rentals are bargains. Zillow, one of the web's most trusted aggregators of real-estate information, scoured its listings an...
Bloomberg | Ari Levy and Dan Levy | Posted 05.25.2011
For Airbnb -- along with Craigslist and rival rental sites like HomeAway.com Inc. -- the threat of foreclosures is bringing a surge of listings. Local...
Reuters | Posted 05.01.2012