Posts Tagged ‘ real estate market ’

What Realtors In Miami Real Estate Can Do For Homebuyers

Aug 26th, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: South Region

It is advisable that inexperienced homebuyers should look to realtors to help them search for a residential real estate property in Miami. These professionals can also lend you their expertise in the market to process all the necessary requirements that comes with acquisition, ensuring that you get the best property that fits with your requirements.
Realtors [...]



Competition is keeping Edinburgh rental market honest

Aug 22nd, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: International Realty

In recent weeks, it’s been hard to ignore the stories that have surfaced about rising rent prices and the soaring demand for rented properties in the Capital.
We’re hearing that the credit crunch is still maintaining its grip on the property market and sapping confidence among buyers and sellers, while the demand for rented property is [...]



Housing market crisis helps couples stay together

Aug 21st, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: Housing News

Divorce is rarely an easy process, and falling home values and sluggish real-estate sales are combining to make it particularly difficult right now.
Couples aren’t fighting over who gets to keep the house. They’re scrambling to get away from the burden of it. It’s too soon to see the trend in official statistics; the most recent [...]



Real estate market – the shape of things to come

Aug 19th, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: Housing News

The real-estate meltdown has gone deeper and wider than most people thought. Including me, I’ll admit. We’ve all witnessed the results, and naturally everyone wonders what’s next and what to do about it.
Evidence of a bottom
There are some signs that the relentless foreclosures and price erosion are easing. We may be hitting bottom.

1. Escrow index. [...]



NAHB: US home builder sentiment remains at record low

Aug 18th, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: Financial News

U.S. home builder sentiment was stuck at a record low in August, as stringent lending and a flood of foreclosed homes dragged on the real estate market, according to data from the National Association of Home Builders released on Monday.
The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market index held at 16 in August for a second straight month, [...]



Real estate appraisal industry hit by housing crisis

Aug 17th, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: West Region

How much is your house worth in this turbulent market? That’s the question on the minds of many Bay Area homeowners, but it’s become increasingly tough to answer, even for the pros.
Instability in the region’s housing market is making it difficult to determine values, according to mortgage brokers and real estate appraisers. “It’s miserable,” said [...]



Housing market hits real estate hotshot

Aug 16th, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: Midwest Region

Radio gadfly Joe Aldeguer – you know him from WLS as “The king of real estate! The wizard of creative thinking! The master of making the deal!” – has closed his suburban mortgage-lending business, the Mortgage Exchange, and faced foreclosure on two of his own properties.
Harris Bank filed foreclosure cases against Mr. Aldeguer to collect [...]



Idaho foreclosures rise again

Aug 15th, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: West Region

A national firm reports that Idaho foreclosures rose nearly 41 percent from June to July and 121 percent from the same period last year.
RealtyTrac’s market report ranked Idaho at the 15th highest rate of filings among U.S. states for the month of July. But a local bank officials says the foreclosure trend isn’t as bad [...]



Housing Rebound in Cleveland Means Bad News for U.S.

Aug 15th, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: Northeast Region

The good news in the worst housing slump since the Great Depression is that the real estate market in Cleveland is recovering. That’s also the bad news.
The Cleveland area led the nation for home price gains in April and May with an 18 percent jump in the lowest price tier of the S&P/Case-Shiller home price [...]



Orlando is Florida’s Most Stable Real Estate Market

Aug 14th, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: South Region

The overall real estate market in Florida has not fared well since the subprime mortgage crisis reared its ugly head. Miami topped the American Chronicle’s Worst 25 Housing Predictor Forecast in both 2007 and 2008, and was cited as possibly undergoing “the worst housing crash in national history.” But the market outlook in other parts [...]