*Note: To access the latest “Best 25 Markets” select Top 25 Markets from the menu on the left. More housing markets are forecast to experience appreciation in 2010 as the nation’s real estate markets move closer to stabilization. The Best 25 Housing Markets named annually by Housing Predictor hold the strongest likelihood of housing inflation… Continue reading Best Housing Markets in 2010
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2010 Georgia Housing Market
Home sales are sliding in Georgia and foreclosures are climbing as markets are hampered by high unemployment, despite some of the lowest mortgage rates in history. But the housing market poses the best buyers market in more than a decade for those looking to get into a home. Despite rising home sales prompted by the… Continue reading 2010 Georgia Housing Market
Action Star Loses Big On Manhattan Condo
Action movie star Bruce Willis is losing big money on his Manhattan condo bought at the height of the real estate bubble. Willis becomes the second major Hollywood star in weeks to lose big money on real estate bought at the wrong time in 2007, right behind Nicolas Cage, who lost $9.5-million on his Rhode… Continue reading Action Star Loses Big On Manhattan Condo
Buying Real Estate Can Be Easy
Buying real estate can be as easy or as difficult as you want to make it. Prospective purchasers research to gain knowledge of the local market place anywhere from a quick couple of days to more than two years. Judging from a variety of research conducted on the subject there really isn’t a dependable average.… Continue reading Buying Real Estate Can Be Easy
National Real Estate Prices Forecast to Deflate Further
Scrambling to find a bottom, the U.S. real estate market is falling further and further in most areas of the country. Home prices nationally will deflate an average of more than 8% in 2008, according to the Housing Predictor forecast. The real estate crisis, triggered by an over supply of new creative financing programs and… Continue reading National Real Estate Prices Forecast to Deflate Further
2011 Connecticut Housing Market
Battling a 20-year low mark in home sales, Connecticut is dealing with the aftermath of the real estate crash with dwindling sales after the federal home buyer tax credit expired. But Fairfield County, home to four of the state’s largest cities is seeing a rebound in sales that could usher in a change in the… Continue reading 2011 Connecticut Housing Market
2011 Idaho Housing Market
Troubled by one of the highest monthly rates of foreclosures in the nation, Idaho’s housing market is battling to find a bottom amid the worst real estate crash in U.S. history. Home sales rose while the federal government was offering a special tax credit to buyers, but then tumbled like an avalanche after the credit… Continue reading 2011 Idaho Housing Market
Mortgage Flu Hits Real Estate
As home foreclosures increase daily weakening real estate markets a new world flu has struck. The subprime crisis evolved into the national housing crisis only to become the mortgage flu. Some 89 percent of people surveyed by Housing Predictor blame mortgage companies for artificially inflating the housing market by selling too many mortgages to those… Continue reading Mortgage Flu Hits Real Estate
2011 Arkansas Housing Market
Arkansas has one of the strongest economies with one of the best employment rates in the nation, which is propelling its housing markets to improving conditions much sooner than most of the U.S. Home sales haven’t been setting any records, but near record low mortgage rates have kept most markets active with homeowners who are… Continue reading 2011 Arkansas Housing Market
2011 California Housing Market
Like suffering through a painful New Year’s hangover, California is slumbering through the fallout of the real estate crash after twin tax credits artificially boosted its housing market only to return to a slowdown. As the world’s sixth largest economy on its own, California isn’t exactly falling into economic ruin, but it isn’t making headway… Continue reading 2011 California Housing Market