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Featured News, Residential, US Real Estate

Economists Praying For Housing Recovery

By Mike Wheatley | June 2, 2011

Real Estate, Residential, US Real Estate

Rental Homes Increase in Over 500 US Cities

By Allison Halliday | June 1, 2011

More than 500 mid-size and large cities in the US have seen an increase in the number of rental homes, and nationally this percentage has increased from 33.8% in 2000 to 34.9% in 2010. This increase comes in the aftermath of the housing market collapse, as nearly 4,000,000 homes have been foreclosed on during the […]

Real Estate Investing, US Real Estate

Americans Lose Interest in Home Ownership

By Mike Wheatley | April 20, 2011

What with the lowest housing prices in a generation, you would think that anyone in a position to buy a home would jump at the chance. But in fact, as Victoria Pauli concurs, the housing collapse has made many people think twice about home ownership.

FannieMae Brings Back HomePath Buyer Incentives

By Tavis J. Hampton | April 12, 2011

Fannie Mae, the Federal National Mortgage Association, has revived its HomePath buyer incentives program, which provides assistance for paying closing costs on the purchase of foreclosed homes. The program requires the purchasers to actually live in the foreclosed homes they buy, so do not expect assistance if you are an investor looking to buy, renovate, […]

Featured News, US Real Estate

Top Housing Official Jumps Ship For Lobbying Job

By Ryan Cox | March 17, 2011

Last week David H. Stevens announced he would step down as commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration, and this week its being announced that he will be named the next chief executive of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). During his two-year stint in the Obama administration, he was a key adviser on housing-finance policies. He will succeed John A. Courson, a former mortgage banker who took the helm of the MBA in 2008. Mr. Courson’s departure is seen as a unexpected upheaval to a trade association that has had an extremely vociferous three year period.

GOP Begins Plans to Reduce Role of Fannie and Freddie

By Tavis J. Hampton | March 15, 2011

By the time the media began to reveal the extent of damage major lending institutions had done to the U.S. economy, the names Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were about as common as Brad and Angelina. Republican legislators in Congress are now ironing out a new plan to more gradually reduce the role of Fannie […]

Featured News, US Real Estate

Fannie Mae's Michael Williams: Clueless in San Diego

By Phil Butler | March 6, 2011

Fannie Mae President and CEO Michael J. Williams was at the University of San Diego at an annual discussion on the future of home lending. At the top of his agenda, the Obama Administration's plans to eliminate Fannie Mae altogether - but some side stepping was involved. However slippery Williams and other officials have become, it's clear lending may never be the same again.

Featured News, Residential

The Home Investment Dichotomy

By Joe Spake | March 4, 2011

We have been hammered with news stories over the past couple of years about the part of the American Dream that has to do with home ownership. Is home ownership still an aspiration, or is it just looked upon as another bad investment? Constant hype by the real estate industry, over decades, that homes are good INVESTMENTS, brought exhilaration in the real estate market as the investment factor drove it right up to the precipice, and malaise as the market tumbled down.

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