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

New home sales were down monthly and up yearly, but the story is so much deeper than that. By now you’ve surely seen the headlines – though new home sales in July were up 12.3 percent from last year,

July’s existing-home sales data looked pretty positive, but scratching beneath the surface reveals a different perspective. It all seems so nice – in July, existing-home sales rose 2.4 percent from June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.15 million,

Despite numbers that would imply the contrary, homebuilder confidence continued to increase this month. #82355278 / gettyimages.com Builders were a mighty confident bunch this month, with the NAHB’s Housing Market Index, the industry’s leading measure of homebuilder confidence, rising

NAR’s new existing home-sales report shows the sales pace quickening, inventory rising and distressed sales falling. #180585625 / gettyimages.com As summer temperatures hit their peak in July, so did existing-home sales, which, as the National Association of Realtors today

New CoreLogic report reveals another month of dwindling cash sales, but some states are maintaining high cash sales volumes. #3464-000089 / gettyimages.com Cash sales in the U.S. were down in May, according to a new report from CoreLogic. Falling

Simply put, without government guarantees, the percentage of first-time homebuyers would be even smaller than it already is. #181215771 / gettyimages.com In June of this year, only 28 percent of existing-home sales went to first-time homebuyers, a historically low

Home sales in the 11-county Atlanta area continued their lackluster pace in July, according to the latest analysis. #113456532 / gettyimages.com Home sales in the 11-county Atlanta region totaled 4,530 in July, which is down 2.5 percent from June

New survey data has uncovered the secret reason for why housing has yet to fully recover – though admittedly, it’s a pretty straightforward explanation. #144553105 / gettyimages.com Interest rates remain at historic lows. Home price gains have moderated, and