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2010’s Worst-Selling Housing Markets (Forbes.com)
Miami-area home sellers looking to unload their properties might want to make sure they have comfortable couches.
It looks like they’re going to be there a while.
That’s because Miami tops our list of the nation’s most sedentary housing markets. These 10 spots feature a potent mix of dropping prices and sluggish sales rates. Also on the list: Denver; San Diego; Baltimore; Washington, [...]
Fed’s Mortage Purchase Program Ends. What Now? (Los Angeles Times)
The government’s $1.25-trillion program to prop up the housing market by purchasing mortgages came to an end Wednesday — in a small, messy room at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with four desks and a Nerf basketball hoop.
For the last year, a small team of traders has worked here to buy massive amounts [...]
Tips For First-Time Home Buyers – 2010 (US News and World Report
2010 First-Time Home Buyers’ Guide – US News and World Report.
OBAMANOMICS IN ACTION: Home Buyer Tax Credit Likely To Cost Taxpayers $100K Per Home (Huffington Post/Calculated Risk)
Recent indications that demand for housing is lagging, Calculated Risk writes, are “no surprise and suggests that the extension and expansion of the home buyer tax credit will probably cost taxpayers over $100,000 for each additional home sold.
Just about every economist opposed the tax credit as expensive and ineffective. Here are some quotes from a [...]
The 10 Cheapest U.S. Cities To Buy Real Estate (US World News)
10 Cities for Real Estate Steals – US News and World Report.
HOME BUYERS BEWARE: 10 MISTAKES TO AVOID WHEN PURCHASING A HOUSE (US News and World Report
10 Rookie Home Buyer Mistakes to Avoid – US News and World Report.
The Happiest And HealthIest Cities In The United States (USA Today)
Feeling down? You might consider a move to Boulder, Colo.
A massive new study of Americans’ attitudes concludes that the city at the foot of the Rocky Mountains is home to the happiest, healthiest people in the United States. At the bottom of 162 large and medium-sized cities: Huntington, W.Va.
The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, based on interviews [...]
How To Buy Foreclosed Properties At Auction (Bankrate.com)
Home foreclosure filings declined steadily from August through November 2009, but were still significantly higher than they were a year ago, according to RealtyTrac, a leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties.
Home foreclosure filings For November 2009 — including default notices, scheduled foreclosure auctions and bank repossessions — numbered 306,627, a decrease of nearly 8 percent [...]
10 Must Have Features In Today’s New Homes (Yahoo!)
Americans want smaller houses and they are willing to strip some of yesterday’s most popular rooms — such as home theaters — from them in order to accommodate changing lifestyles, consumer experts told audiences at the International Builders Show here this week.
“This is a traumatic time in this country and the future isn’t something we’re [...]
HOME BUYING: The Best Foreclosure Bargins In America (CNBC)
The turmoil in the US housing market has been punctuated with a wave of residential foreclosures. With sellers looking to offload foreclosed properties, often at a loss, the discounted prices have been identified as potentially profitable investments by speculators betting on a housing rebound. But across the country, where are the best opportunities?
According [...]
