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…
A report from CNBC. "Mortgage rates are around the lowest in three years, but buyers are suddenly much more cautious about purchasing a home. Competition is cooling, and consequently sellers can no longer command any price. At an open house…
A weekend topic starting with the Globe and Mail in Canada. "In the leafy Vancouver west side neighbourhood of Kerrisdale, there is a lot at W. 35th Avenue that has sat overgrown and empty for several years. A City application…
A report from Go Local Prov in Rhode Island. "For nearly three years, the proposed 46-story Fane Tower has been meandering its way through a complex web of Rhode Island’s overlapping regulatory structures. Across the United States -- and including…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "With a real estate market with a glut of inventory, it takes more than an open house with cookies or cocktails to sell a property. To market a unit at mega-tower 432…
A report from Summit Daily in Colorado. "Summer and early fall are often the busiest times for real estate in Summit County. But with national news predicting an economic recession paired with a downturn in Denver’s real estate market, Summit…
A report from 27 East in New York. "A court has ordered the sale of Ponquogue Point, the bankrupt condominium project on Foster Avenue in Hampton Bays that stalled when it was near completion. Construction began in 2014. The launch…
A report from the Wall Street Journal. "The next time you buy a house, your lender might deploy a drone and a computer algorithm to size up the property instead of a tape-measure-toting human appraiser. Federal regulators are moving to…
A report from the Buffalo News in New York. "When Brett Barrett's husband got a surgical residency in Buffalo, the couple left Chicago for the Colvin Estates neighborhood of North Buffalo. They closed in May on their new $369,000 Marrano…
A report from CNBC. "Homebuilders and buyers alike are pulling back, even as mortgage rates fall to multiyear lows. Just 12% of adults said they plan to buy a home in the next year, according to the National Association of…