By Mike Colpitts Home prices fell nearly an average of 5% last year as a result of a troubled U.S. economy, decaying consumer sentiment, high unemployment and a foreclosure crisis that is running out of control, according to real estate research firm Core Logic. The company’s December Home Price Index showed an average 4.7% decline… Continue reading Home Prices Fall Almost 5% in 2011
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Montana housing market
Mortgage Defaults Surge Higher
By Kevin Chiu Mortgage defaults, the first step homeowners face in the foreclosure process, surged higher during the month of June demonstrating an increase in future anticipated foreclosures growing at the fastest rate in more than a year, according to Lender Processing Services, a real estate data supplier which tracks defaults. The surge in mortgage… Continue reading Mortgage Defaults Surge Higher
2011 Montana Housing Market
Through its conservative values Montana avoided much of the real estate bubble, but the difficulties surrounding its housing markets as fallout of the financial crisis persist with less bank lending and troubles in the economy at large. Home sales in most of Montana took an up swing as a result of the federal home buyers’… Continue reading 2011 Montana Housing Market
Markets Forecast to Rise with Housing Inflation
In a turning point that demonstrates U.S. housing markets are making a recovery, Housing Predictor is forecasting that local markets in seventeen states will experience housing inflation in 2011. The states are dominated by the Mid-west and most Northern regions that were less affected by harmful new mortgage lending products during the real estate bubble,… Continue reading Markets Forecast to Rise with Housing Inflation
2010 Montana Housing Market
Protected by more conservative mortgage lending standards and less outside influences, Montana’s housing markets haven’t crashed like many other areas of the country. Few foreclosures and lower priced homes have had a stabilizing impact. But the slowdown in home sales is nagging at markets. Housing sales slowed in most of the state and then got… Continue reading 2010 Montana Housing Market