Mortgage foreclosure settlement In a historic deal after repeated delays and over a year of negotiations, the Justice Department, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,...
A shift in foreclosures CoreLogic released its first national Foreclosure Report which provides monthly data on completed foreclosures, foreclosure inventory and 90+ delinquency rates, reporting that...
Canadian MLS Home Price Index Canadian home buyers, sellers and Realtors are now being served by the newly launched Canadian Multiple Listing Service (MLS) Home Price...
Settlement talks in limbo AGBeat has had a close eye on multi-state talks with the largest banks as over a year ago, all 50 states’ Attorneys...
RentJolt enters live beta The New York City real estate scene is far different than many other markets in America, with renting being the common option...
Home prices decline in 2011 With the release of the CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI®) report for December, a full-year picture is now available for all...
Applications decrease According to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey, the volume of mortgage applications dropped 2.9 percent from the week prior, on...
The ten biggest price tags 2012 is easily the year of the landlord as rental prices are on the rise and vacancy rates and days on...
FHFA pulls the trigger After an extended period of talking about selling off their massive inventory of foreclosed properties (Real Estate Owned properties, or REOs), the...
Hardworking Americans left holding the bag During President Obama’s State of the Union address, he noted that leading up to the housing collapse in 2008, regulators...
Back to normal? Referring to current mortgage and commercial real estate loan delinquency rates released by the Federal Reserve, Texas Real Estate Center’s Chief Economist, Dr....
2012 leadership team Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) is the real estate data aggregator and distributor providing the Chicagoland multiple listing service (MLS) to nearly 8,000...
S&P’s allegedly fraudulent ratings Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against Standard & Poor’s (S&P), alleging fraudulent role in assigning its highest ratings...
"After three years of carefully examining internal metrics for the sites where our listings appeared, I categorically state the following - neither the home seller who...
Foreclosure sales data One in five homes sold in the third quarter of 2011 were distressed homes, according to the most recent data, reported today by...
Sentiment on the rise According to the National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) Remodeling Market Index (RMI) for the fourth quarter of 2011, remodeling sentiment hit...
New home sales drop The hardest hit sector of real estate has again been served bad news as the U.S. Commerce Department reported today that after...
New York Attorney General New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman was appointed this week by President Obama to a special investigative unit that will coordinate existing...
Drop in number of contracts signed Pending sales of existing homes dropped in December, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) who released a report...
Obama’s State of the Union address During President Obama’s State of the Union address tonight, the President exerted the most efforts on jobs and the economy...
State of the Union address Although various insiders alluded to Obama’s focus on housing in his State of the Union, but in the early release of...
Australia, UK, America According to a new study by Demographia, the least affordable housing markets in the world are in Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, UK,...
The FHFA stands firm The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac told lawmakers in a letter today that forcing...
Tight lending in 2012 The housing market continues to struggle as Realtors report one in three contracts now fail, up nearly 10 percent from the year...
Worst hit neighborhoods According to a new report by CNN Money, using RealtyTrac data, it is clear that some areas were harder hit by foreclosures in...
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