What happens to prices when Wall Street is your landlord
It was two years ago, almost to the day, that Warren Buffett said on CNBC he would buy up, “a couple hundred thousand” single family …
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Real Estate
Google and real estate
Google’s investment arm just put the Internet real estate company Auction.com on the map big-time, giving it a $50 million cash infusion.
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10 most expensive markets for real estate
To most people, New York City has become an otherworldly real estate market. It’s the town where a skyrise condo just sold for more than $50 million—and …
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Google to invest $50 million in real estate site Auction.com
Google is using its sizable power and cash to put a real estate company on the map. Google Capital, a fledgling venture capital arm of the …
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Something is out of whack for housing (and it’s not all this snow)
The housing market has been abnormal in many respects over the past few years. Analysts at Goldman Sachs point to an elevated level of distressed …
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Negative home equity
Fast-rising home prices are giving borrowers back equity, but will it be enough to put a spring in the spring selling season?
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Four million more homeowners now ‘above water’
Fast-rising home prices in 2013 gave U.S. borrowers back much-needed equity in their homes. The housing crash and subsequent plunge in prices during the end …
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US pending home sales up 0.1% in January vs. 2.0% estimate
Amid harsh weather that battered much of the U.S., signed contracts to buy existing homes held steady last month, according to the National Association of …
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The state of housing
Mixed signals from the housing industry. New home sales surge while application for mortgages drop. Ivy Zelman, the analyst who called housing`s top and bottom, makes sense of the conflicting data.
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Mixed signals
New home sales surge while applications for mortgages drop. How do investors make sense of this data and which way is housing headed in this all-important spring selling season?
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Housing ‘nirvana’ around the corner: Star analyst
She is famous for calling the top of the housing boom and the bottom of the housing crash. Then last spring analyst, Ivy Zelman proclaimed …
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Feeling less financial stress? Here’s one reason why
If you’re feeling a little less stressed about your household finances, you have the housing market to thank. But your stress level may start rising …
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Mortgage applications at lowest level in two decades
Mortgage applications to buy a home fell last week to the lowest level in nearly two decades, according to a weekly survey from the Mortgage …
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Fannie Mae bailout settled
After the housing market recovery and eight straight quarters of profits, Fannie Mae is ready to repay its bailout loan in full.
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Home sales slump
Home sales slide to an 18-month low, but it’s not the winter weather that’s stalling the housing recovery.
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