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New home sales fell for the second straight month in May but the good news is that sales of homes priced below $300,000 rose sharply, indicating perhaps that more first-time buyers are able to get...
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There is a purple house for sale in Perry, Ohio. It is priced at only $149,528. One reason for that is the house is small. Another may be the odd color. The house at 3759 Indiana St, Perry, Ohio has...
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The federal minimum wage of $7.25 has not risen in a decade. The price of most essentials like housing, clothing, and food has. As a measure of how little the minimum wage covers when gauged against...
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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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