Home Prices

Home Sales Drop To 18-Year Low

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 12.23.2008 | Business


WASHINGTON — Sales of new homes fell in November to the slowest pace in nearly 18 years, while new home prices dropped by the biggest amount in ...

Why Home Values May Take Decades To Recover

USA Today | Dennis Cauchon | Posted 12.12.2008 | Business


Rick Wallick moved into a new, three-bedroom $200,000 home in Maricopa, Ariz., in October 2005. Today, the home is worth $80,000. The disabled softwa...

September new home sales rise by 2.7 percent

AP | ALEX VEIGA and MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 10.27.2008 | Business


Sales of new homes unexpectedly rose last month, as many homebuyers seized on builder discounts and rushed to take advantage of expiring down payment ...

Home Prices Plunge Record 15.8 Percent In May

AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | Posted 07.29.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — Home prices tumbled by the steepest rate ever in May, according to a closely watched housing index released Tuesday, as the housing s...

A Historic Opportunity to Improve Our Cities

Jay Walljasper | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green


Jay Walljasper

Under the weight of gasoline prices, along with increased costs for heating and cooling suburban homes, today's affluent subdivisions might become tomorrow's slums.

Home Prices Dropped At Record Rate In April

AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — No matter who's measuring, the results are the same: Housing prices are tumbling at the sharpest rates ever with a bottom still at le...

S&P: US home prices tumble a record 14.1 pct in 1Q

AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | Posted 05.27.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — U.S. home prices dropped at the sharpest rate in two decades during the first quarter, a closely watched index showed Tuesday, a somb...

One Homeowner's Burden Is Another's Bargain

USA Today | Stephanie Armour | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business


Home prices are sinking. Banks are seizing properties from owners who can't pay their mortgages. Yet for Amber Gilmore, the miserable housing market h...

Manhattan Home Sales Slow, Prices Rise

AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — Turmoil on Wall Street and a sluggish economy finally slowed home sales in the Big Apple in the first quarter, but a slew of big-tick...

Wall Street's Crisis Hits Main Street

New York Times | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 03.21.2008 | Business


In Seattle, sales at a long-established hardware store, Pacific Supply, are suddenly dipping. In Oklahoma City, couples planning their weddings are de...

Existing Home Sales Decline

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 02.25.2008 | Business


WASHINGTON — Sales of existing homes fell for the sixth straight month in January, dropping to the slowest sales pace on record. Median home pri...

What $1 Million Buys In Homes Worldwide

Forbes Via ABC News | Matt Woolsey | Posted 01.06.2008 | Business


Home prices in many parts of the world swelled last year, with Eastern European and Scandinavian markets leading the way with double-digit growth. Th...

How Bad Could This Market Crash Get? Very.

Henry Blodget | Posted 11.20.2007 | Business


Henry Blodget

I suspect we're in the early stages of another major bear market. I hope I'm wrong, but even if I am, it's worth thinking about how bad things could get.

Ten Sizzling Real Estate Markets

Forbes | Deborah Orr | Posted 11.12.2007 | Business


Home prices nationwide posted their biggest drop in 16 years last month, according to the National Association of Realtors. But someone forgot to tel...

America's Most Stable Housing Markets

Forbes | Matt Woolsey | Posted 10.03.2007 | Business


Nationwide, home prices are falling, sales are sluggish and the number of foreclosures is mounting. Ask any economist and you'll hear that things are ...