Sustainability| More...
 

Home Values

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

Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

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...

Read Whole Story

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

AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Mortgage Ciris, Case-Shiller Index, Home Prices, Real Estate, Home Values, Business News

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

Read Whole Story

Foreclosures Rising In Housing Market's Top Tiers

Wall Street Journal | NICK TIMIRAOS | Posted 10.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage, Foreclosure Rates, Defaults, Recession, Real Estate, Housing Crisis, Housing Data, Foreclosure, Housing Statistics, Home Values, Mortgate Defaults, Housing Report, Subprime Mortgages, Zillow, Economy, Prime, Business News

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...

Read Whole Story

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

bloomberg.com | Daniel Taub | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business

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...

Read Whole Story

Arthur Delaney

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

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...

Read Whole Story

Three Things Still Wrong With the Housing Market

Charlie Farrell | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business

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.

Read Post

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

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 ...

Read Whole Story

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

WSJ | Guest Contributor | Posted 07.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Real Estate Market, Consumer Spending, Home Prices, Real Esate Prices, Wealth Effect, Home Values, Business News

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...

Read Whole Story

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

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

Read More: S, Real Estate Crisis, U.S. Real Estate, Case-Shiller Index, David M. Blitzer, Chase Shiller Index March, Home Prices, Home Values, Business News

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 ...

Read Whole Story

Home Prices Fall At Record Pace

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

Read More: Housing Prices, Housing Market, Home Prices, Housing, Economy, Home Values, Business News

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...

Read Whole Story

SEC Rules Don't Go Far Enough

Neil Baron | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Economic Downturn, Stocks, Money, Stock Market, Economic Reform, Economy, Home Values, Economic Crisis, Credit Crisis, Subprime Mortage Crisis, Capitalism, Securities and Exchange Commission, Subprime Loans, Business News
Neil Baron

Credit ratings have an extraordinarily broad effect on our financial system -- witness their role in the subprime crisis.

Read Post

Why Home Values May Take Decades To Recover

USA Today | Dennis Cauchon | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Home Prices, Real Estate, Homes, Home Values, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

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...

Read Whole Story

Into the Economic Abyss

AP | RACHEL BECK and ERIN McCLAM | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Investment Banks, Gas Prices, Recession, U.S. Economy, Wall Street, Inflation, Home Values, Stanford Financial, Business News

NEW YORK — For months, Americans have been subjected to a sort of economic water torture _ a maddening drip of bad news about jobs, gas prices, ...

Read Whole Story