Home Prices

Home Prices: Robert Shiller: 5 More Years of Stagnant Real Estate

WSJ | Nina Koeppen | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business


Robert Shiller, the Yale University economist who famously predicted the housing bust, was awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics toda...

Is Credit Evil?

Don McNay | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business


Don McNay

I've watched many people get in trouble with upside down car loans, second mortgages or high interest rate financing. Credit keeps many people from living within their means. Then a friend told me he was buying a large house.

Home Prices Increase From June To July

AP | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — Home prices rose for the third month in a row in July, new data Tuesday showed, more proof a fragile housing recover is underway. The ...

Home Prices: Now May Be The Time To Buy Luxury Real Estate

AP | ADRIAN SAINZ | Posted 11.28.2009 | Business


A million dollars doesn't buy you what it once did. In most U.S. neighborhoods, it now gets you a lot more. During the housing boom, prices rose so h...

The Most Expensive Housing Markets In The United States: Coldwell Banker (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.23.2009 | Business


Today, Coldwell Banker released its list of the most expensive housing markets in the United States. If you're lucky enough to own property in one of ...

Case-Shiller Index: 2Q Showed First National Price Increase In 3 Years

AP | J.W. Elphinstone, AP Real Estate Writer | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business


NEW YORK (AP) -- Home prices across most of the country have started to rise from the depths of the housing slump, a critical trend that will help sta...

Home Prices: No Quick Recovery Ahead

Wall Street Journal | BRETT ARENDS | Posted 09.16.2009 | Business


o, is our long national nightmare over? Has the housing market finally hit bottom? There has been some muted -- albeit exhausted -- cheering from hom...

Rescued by the House No One Wanted

Tina Traster | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living


Tina Traster

I have a thing for rescue. Put in certain circumstances I act before I think, especially when crises involve animals. It's a reflex.

Is Housing a Barometer for Economic Recovery?

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business


Jill Schlesinger

It's amazing what qualifies for good news during the nation's longest post-War recession on record.

June New Home Sales Up 11 Percent

AP | ALAN ZIBEL and ALEX VEIGA | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — New home sales rose last month at the fastest clip in more than eight years as buyers eagerly took advantage of bargain prices &nda...

Hamptons Luxury Home Market Has Four-Year Inventory Backup

bloombergenergy.com | Oshrat Carmiel | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business


uxury home sales in the Hamptons, New York's oceanside retreat for Wall Street and Hollywood luminaries, stalled in the second quarter as the number o...

25 Best Towns For Affordable Homes

Posted 08.16.2009 | Business


Where can you get the most bang for your buck in this shaky real estate market? Money Magazine has compiled a list of 25 towns with the most affordabl...

Real Estate Crash: How's Your City Doing? (SLIDESHOW)

businessinsider.com | Henry Blodget and Kamelia Angelova|Jul. 1, 2009, 6:48 PM|19 | Posted 08.02.2009 | Business


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 ...

Home Prices Down 18.1 From Last April: Case-Shiller

AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — Newfound signs of stability in the housing market could still be threatened by rising foreclosures and slow efforts to stop them, acc...

Home Prices: Why They're Less Important Than You Think

WSJ | Guest Contributor | Posted 07.23.2009 | Business


Much commentary in the financial press over the last several months has been concerned with the impact of falling house prices on consumer spending. W...

Case-Shiller: Home Prices Show Record Decline, Fall 19.1%

wsj.com | KERRY E. GRACE and KEVIN KINGSBURY | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business


U.S. home prices continued their multiyear tumble in March, according to the S&P Case-Shiller home-price indexes, as the downdraft shows no near-term ...

Median home prices fall in 88 percent of cities

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — Home prices fell in nearly nine out of every 10 U.S. cities in the first quarter of this year as first-time buyers looking for barg...

Nearly 20% Of Homeowners Owe More On Mortgage Than Their Homes Are Worth

Wall Street Journal | RUTH SIMON and JAMES R. HAGERTY | Posted 06.05.2009 | Home


UPDATE: [This Wall Street Journal story has been updated from an earlier version due to a clerical error on the part of the group that conducted the s...

Home prices post 18.6 percent annual drop in Feb.

AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | Posted 05.29.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — In another sign the housing crisis could be reaching the bottom, home prices dropped sharply in February but for the first time in 25...

Your House Is Finally Getting Close To A Fair Price

Henry Blodget | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business


Henry Blodget

Ignore your real-estate agent when he or she tells you the recovery is right around the corner. It isn't.

Case-Shiller: Home Prices Dropped 19% In January

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — Home prices sank by the sharpest annual rate on record in January, and the pace continues to accelerate, but there were a handful o...

Home Prices: 6.3% Decline In January

AP | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — A government report says U.S. home prices fell 6.3 percent in January from the same month last year. The Federal Housing Finance A...

Home Prices Post Record Annual Decline In 4Q

AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | Posted 03.27.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — Home prices tumbled by the worst annual rate on record in the fourth quarter, two housing indexes showed Tuesday, and the slope of de...

Home Prices Fall At Record Pace

AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business


Jacquie Jacobs has lived in San Diego all her life, and finally now, she can afford to buy a house there. That's the bright side of plunging home pric...

Home Sales Drop To 18-Year Low

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 01.23.2009 | 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 ...