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Several American cities remain so blighted that they have thousands of unoccupied houses. Some of these houses have been bulldozed; others have been left to rot. In one city, the local government has...
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Slightly higher mortgage loan rates last week led to reduced activity in the market for refinancing according to data released Wednesday by the Mortgage Bankers Association.
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Home builder confidence dipped slightly in June though it still remains positive despite headwinds.
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We screened our 24/7 Wall St. research database looking for Buy ratings from Wall Street on the top homebuilders and found five companies that look like solid bets now for investors.
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Applications for new mortgages jumped last week as interest rates dropped even further. Demand for refinancings accounted for nearly half of all new mortgages.
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The percentage of U.S. mortgages fell to 4.3% in March, a 13-year low for the month. The inventory of homes in foreclosure is now at levels not seen in at least 20 years.
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A house for sale in Medina, Ohio, is not an ordinary home. It was built in Massachusetts decades before the United States was founded and moved to its present location in the 1970s.
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Mortgage rates fell last week and the drop has continued on into this week. New applications for loans also increased, but the rise was modest due to the Memorial Day holiday.
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Home prices in April rose 3.6% year over year, according to the latest report from CoreLogic. Home prices have regained 60% of the value they lost since the housing market bottomed out in 2011.
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Pending home sales (contracts signed, but not yet closed) fell in April, continuing a consecutive 16-month year-over-year decline. It's a poor kick-off to the year's prime home-buying season.
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Applications for new mortgage loans fell last week even though mortgage loan rates also dropped.
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A surprising number of the homeless in America are full-time students, mostly under the age of 18, forced to balance the difficulties of daily existence on the streets with the challenges of...
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U.S. home prices are rising at the slowest rate in nearly 7 years according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index. Even so, the increase in home prices continues to rise faster than inflation.
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New home sales dropped sharply month over month in April, but remain well above April 2018 levels.
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