Daily Real Estate News  |   February 25, 2008
Is housing about to enjoy a spring thaw or will it remain in the deep freeze? Some observers are optimistic.
“I think this is the best buyer’s market that has existed in a decade, maybe longer,” says Russell Shaw, in his 30th year with John Hall & Associates real […]

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Daily Real Estate News  |   February 22, 2008    Source: Reuters News, Lynn Adler (02/21/08)
Yale Professor Robert Shiller, whose Case-Shiller 20-city home price index has become an industry standard, says people shouldn’t fear gradually falling home prices.
“There’s nothing troubling about a gradual correction of home prices. If we keep our incomes at the current level and […]

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by Lawrence Yun, NAR Chief Economist Copyright National Association of REALTORS®, Reprinted from REALTOR.org with permission
Though the national headlines have been pounding out the news of a housing market meltdown, implosion, and collapse, all markets are not equal. In NAR’s latest metro price survey, roughly half of the country experienced a price increase. Upstate New […]

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Roughly half of metropolitan areas continued to show rising home prices in the fourth quarter of 2007, according to the latest quarterly survey by the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®.
In the fourth quarter, 73 out of 150 metropolitan statistical areas show increases in median existing single-family home prices from a year earlier, including 11 areas with […]

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From Blanche Evans Realty Times 2008.
It’s high time we told buyers (and sellers, for that matter) the truth about whether a home is a good investment.
Despite what Wall Street wants you to believe, owning a home isn’t the same kind of investment as stocks or bonds. What you get is a USE asset that depreciates […]

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