What Can a Half Century of Housing Inventory Data and Past Recessions Tell Us?
RISMEDIA, February 11, 2009-Like any other market, housing runs on supply and demand. Factors manipulate supply and demand like interest...
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Foreclosures: Buying at Your Own Risk?
RISMEDIA, February 14, 2009-(MCT)-Nikki Keating vividly recalls trembling when she blurted out a bid for a foreclosed house last July...
Tough Questions in Face of Future TARP Spending
RISMEDIA, February 9, 2009-(MCT)-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is expected to issue a report this week describing plans to spend the...
Real estate Q&A – Condo Buying & Understanding the Codes, Covenants and Restrictions
RISMEDIA, February 9, 2009-(MCT)-Q. My wife and I helped our daughter, financially, with the purchase of a condominium in October....
Stimulus Still Expected to Pass But Not without Complications
RISMEDIA, February 6, 2009-(MCT)-This much is clear: Sometime soon, probably this month, President Barack Obama will sign an economic stimulus...
Bankrate – Mortgage Rates Follow Treasury Yields Higher
RISMEDIA, February 6, 2009-Mortgage rates rebounded from one week ago, with the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate now 5.70%. According...
Realtors Urge Congress to Help ‘HOPE For Homeowners’
RISMEDIA, February 5, 2009-This week, The National Association of Realtors® announced its support for new legislation introduced by House Financial...
Democrats Lose Senate Vote to Add $25 Billion to Stimulus
RISMEDIA, February 5, 2009-(MCT)-The Senate refused on Tuesday to pump an additional $25 billion into road, transit and water projects...
Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
RISMEDIA, February 5, 2009-The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending January 30,...
What Comes Next – The Fallout of America’s Buying Binge
RISMEDIA, February 4, 2009-(MCT)-For many consumers, the jig is up. After years of supersizing our houses, cars, meals and closets,...
Frozen Lockboxes: Tools and Strategies for Deicing Before a Showing
A truly blistering winter can freeze up locks, both lockboxes and locks on the doors themselves, so it can pay off to have a fast-acting solution. Read more.
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