Price increases compared to three years ago, before the recovery officially began, and one year ago have been declining steadily since the end of May, according to the latest national DataQuick data. Median sales prices have increased 25 percent since 2011 as of July 7, but on May 29 they were 28 percent above the level of three years … Read More »

Now that the spring buying season is ending, price increases will chill for the balance of the year.  Yet they will continue to rise next year, but at a slower rate, about  6 percent year over year rather than the 8.1 percent increase reached in May. That’s what CoreLogic’s forecast looks like.  The CoreLogic HPI Forecast indicates that home prices, … Read More »

  Price growth will plummet to an annual rate of only 0.9 percent for the balance of the year after the tumble began with a stumble when price increases fell to just a 0.9 percent quarter over quarter growth rate at the end of second quarter in June. That’s the latest prognosis from Dr. Alex Villacorta, Clear Capital’s  vice president … Read More »

Sea changes are in store for residential real estate ten years from now.  Millions of new households will lift rental and starter home markets, half of the new families will be minorities and their ability to access mortgage finance will determine whether they own or rent. Those are some of the headlines from the Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies’ … Read More »

  Most housing markets remain weak despite declining mortgage delinquencies, improving local employment, house price gains and attractive mortgage rates due to weak home purchase mortgage applications. The latest data from Freddie Mac’s Multi-Indicator Market Index(SM) (MiMi(SM)) showing mixed signals for the U.S. housing market: The national MiMi value stands at -3.01 points indicating a weak housing market overall with … Read More »

Existing-home sales rose strongly in May as did new home sales, which rose in May by greatest monthly increase in 22 years.  Yet sales still trailed the torrid sales pace of a year ago. Total existing-home sales rose 4.9 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.89 million in May from an upwardly-revised 4.66 million in April, but remain … Read More »

Steady price increases driven by another season of inventory shortages has convinced a record number of consumers that now is a good time to sell a house.  Unfortunately, millions of homeowners are missing the opportunity. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 44pecent of American adults say it’s a good time for someone in their area to be … Read More »

In the first quarter, Texas had the highest percentage of mortgaged residential properties in an equity position at 96.7 percent, followed by Montana (96.3 percent), Alaska (95.7 percent), North Dakota (95.7 percent) and Hawaii (95.6 percent) according to the latest report from CoreLogic. CoreLogic said more than 300,000 homes returned to positive equity in the first quarter of 2014, bringing … Read More »

Home prices are projected to increase 1.0 percent every month from until May 2014, reaching an 6.3 percent year-over-year increase (+/- 1.5 percent) from April 2014 to April 2015, according to the latest forecast by the CoreLogic Home Price Index. excluding distressed sales like foreclosures and short sales,  prices are expected to rise between 0.8 percent month over month and … Read More »

One of the best measures of the housing recovery is the steady progress than is being made in markets across the country to return home values to their peak values seven or eight years ago.  While sales sag despite retreating interest rates and inventories provide just enough listings to prevent last year’s price eruption, homeowners are leaving negative equity and … Read More »