A report from Axios. "The real estate market should be experiencing a boom — but it's not. In fact, the U.S. housing market has been stagnant for the last 3 years and is beginning to turn lower, data shows. Anyone…
A report from the Palm Beach Post in Florida. "South Florida is the nation’s capital of mortgage fraud, CoreLogic says. The metro area of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties had the highest levels of home-loan chicanery in the nation…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "The Commerce Department said on Friday new home sales dropped 12.8% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 635,000 units last month. It was the biggest monthly decline since July 2013. The…
A weekend topic starting with Good Returns in New Zealand. "As the property landscape changes, yields are, once again, starting to move to centre stage for investors. Yet Kiwibank’s latest property market report reveals that the once stellar yields available…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Buyers looking for discounts had the best chance of finding one them of the Shinnecock Canal in Hampton Bays, where the share of price cuts was the highest in the Hamptons at…
A report from KTVN in Nevada. "Reno's Midtown area continues to grow. More housing options have become available in recent weeks. 'It was a little slow for about a month, and now the last two weeks we've had a major…
A report from Curbed Los Angeles in California. "CoreLogic analyst Anrew LePage suggests the slower rate of price growth may have a lot to do with the fact that home values are entering uncharted territory. Many buyers, says LePage, may…
A report from Mansion Global. "Home buyers in Los Angeles County, once one of the nation’s most competitive housing markets, are now gaining the upper hand. The city ranked No. 6 in the nation for top buyer’s markets in the…
A report from Boston.com on Massachusetts. "Anyone who’s paid even just casual attention to the Boston residential real estate market knows that home values continue to rise, and out of that a phenomenon has emerged: the $1 million one-bedroom, one-bathroom…
A report from the Buffalo News. "Over the course of 13 years, Robert Morgan built a real estate empire that stretches across 14 states and includes 36,000 apartments. But federal prosecutors said he did so with the help of nearly…