In the past, government policies overemphasized homeownership. Instead, Americans should have a variety of affordable and attractive rental and purchase options, in line with their needs and resources.
By Elaine Porterfield SEATTLE, June 2 (Reuters) - Aaron McConnell doesn't mind sharing a kitchen with seven neighbors. He's fine in li...
Simple economics teaches us that we have a self-correcting economy but whenever we're all mired in the throes of an exciting market, we seem to develop amnesia for what could happen based on how similar markets have transpired in the past.
Although most of the housing markets with big price gains exhibit unhealthy fundamentals, some markets with rising prices are healthy. Markets with flat or falling prices include both healthy and unhealthy markets.
The days of moving to Brooklyn to escape Manhattan's ridiculously high rent are no more. Skyrocketing rental prices in Brooklyn could be leading re...
Here's the scoop on where prices and rents are headed.
Homeownership offers an opportunity to build wealth, through equity, that renters simply do not enjoy. It needs to be done right; the loans need to be responsible and sustainable. But make no mistake: Homeownership is an irreplaceable engine of class mobility.
Recently, a landlord looking to engage my services proclaimed that after 15 years of examining and analyzing track records, he'd thrown away the desirable tenant selection playbook.
Nationally, home values reached their bottom in February of 2012 and have since appreciated at very robust monthly growth rates.
Sure, people put up walls in apartments to turn one-bedroom units into two-bedroom units. In Los Angeles, one landlord's taken this thrifty tactic...
* Hedge funds, private equity firms eye single-family homes * Fannie's 2,500 pilot offering drawing out bidders * Skepti...
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...
WASHINGTON — The government is looking to sell off some of its stock of homes in foreclosure. The Federal Housing Finance Agency has control ov...
Housing investors and advocates are embracing a new strategy to keep struggling borrowers in their homes: Purchasing houses from homeowners who can no...
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....
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...
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...
* Vacancies at lowest level since late '01 * Effective rents on the rise * Rate expected to fall further this year ...
(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...
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.
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-...
As Chicago's real estate market continues to turn away from condominiums and toward apartments, demand for (and, therefore, the price of) apartments i...
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.
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.
