$1 million is a hefty chunk of change, but new data shows that it goes much farther in some metro areas than in others. How much is $1 million, in the grand scheme of things? According to some very interesting

Home prices continue rising, CoreLogic finds, but the geographic drivers of the increases may be shifting. Home prices continued to show signs of improvement in July, according to the latest Home Price Index report from CoreLogic. Nationwide, home prices, including

Autumn has traditionally been a slow selling season, but Redfin analysis suggests that may not be the case in 2014. It’s a seasonal trend as tried and true as any in American business – the strong summer homebuying season

Residential construction was basically flat in July, though it remains ahead of 2013’s pace. Residential construction spending through July was at a seasonally adjust annual rate of $358.1 billion, a 0.7 percent increase from June, according to the latest

Negative equity persists in today’s housing market, but its impacts are not equally felt in every price point. Earlier this week, we reported on new findings by Zillow that a whopping 42.6 percent of Generation X mortgage holders are

Construction spending stumbled a bit in Atlanta in July, though it’s more an outlier than anything else. Residential construction spending in the Atlanta region totaled $304 million in July 2014, a 9 percent decline from last year, according to the latest stats from McGraw Hill

Pending home sales rose for the fourth time in five months, according to the National Association of Realtors. Pending home sales rebounded in July, rising 3.3 percent from June according to the latest data from the National Association of

$1 million sure goes much farther in our local housing market! In our housing market, as well as scores of others across the U.S., $1 million is a hefty sum of money, one that awards potential homebuyers a myriad

The U.S. housing market has been in recovery mode the last two years, and despite gains, some areas remain in dire straights. If the real estate industry can be thought of as its own world, then consider the bursting

New CoreLogic report finds that even though foreclosures are still around, their presence is much less pronounced. In 2013, foreclosures were at the epicenter of the housing conversation. However, after a year of tirelessly closing short sales and pushing

Though our marketplace has traversed quite the terrain since 2008, new data shows that it still has quite a bit of ground to cover. We report quite regularly on building permits at the national level, but how have permits

Though the U.S. has cleared through millions of underwater mortgages, a shocking number of Gen X mortgage holders are still underwater. Seventeen percent of the nation’s homeowners – aka 8.7 million – are still underwater on their mortgages, but

Housing affordability has been one of the key marketing tools in an agent’s arsenal, but that could be changing soon. During housing’s down years, agents had a couple of marvelous talking points to use with potential homebuyers – housing prices

Social media is quickly becoming the preferred marketing method for many, and with good reason. Here are 3 steps to help you boost its effectiveness. In the past several years, the influence of the Internet has grown exponentially when it

Home prices in the Atlanta region showed signs of slowing down in the latest Case-Shiller. Home prices in the Atlanta metro area rose 8.6 percent year-over-year in June, according to the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices from Standard & Poor’s.

Homeownership rates in young adults have been dwindling, and Fannie Mae takes a stab at explaining why. Homeownership is on the decline. And though it is a trickling decline and might, at some point in the future, reverse itself, there