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Now that there's a "Cliff" deal, the housing market is on firmer ground today, and here's why.
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Now that there's a "Cliff" deal, the housing market is on firmer ground today, and here's why.
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Get help with your down payment for that new home? Be sure your mortgage lender can track where the money came from, preferably to a close relative.
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Fears of the fiscal cliff could be impacting potential buyers already. The new home sales monthly number from the U.S. Department of Commerce is based on signed contracts.
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“Financing of first-time homebuyers with low down payments threatens to become a significant problem in the U.S. housing market,” says one housing expert.
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A new report from adds some firm data to the debate over how to keep struggling homeowners from defaulting on their mortgages.
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The headline number for housing starts was big, exceeding expectations and sending the home builder stocks on yet another tear.
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Sales of existing homes are recovering slowly, but a drop in supplies of those homes is pushing confidence among the new home builders to a six year high.
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The federal agency that some credit with saving the housing market during the worst of the recent crash, may now be in need of taxpayer help itself.
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The average American is no longer financially distressed, according to one study. Now families are waiting for the national economy to do its part.
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The Federal Housing Administration (FHA), in a report due out Friday, could disclose that its reserves for future mortgage-insurance claims dipped into negative territory for the first time in almost a quarter of a century.
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Officials at Bank of America said they are half way to fulfilling their mandate of providing $7.6 billion worth of consumer relief.
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The mortgage interest deduction is now at risk, due to negotiations over the so-called “fiscal cliff”.
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The homebuilders are rising from the ashes, after overbuilding and a credit crash sent sales and construction to levels not seen economists began counting all those numbers; they are rising, but not necessarily thriving.
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As more investors vie for fewer foreclosed properties, prices are going up and great deals are getting scarce. See where the biggest foreclosure discounts are now.
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The one thing standing in the way of a more robust housing recovery, is tight credit. Mortgage rates are at near-historic lows, but too many potential home buyers still cannot access these rates due to damaged credit.
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Are we better off today than we were four years ago? From the perspective of home prices, the answer is, as always, it depends on where you live.
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When you dig down into the numbers you can see where the numbers are not quite as rosy as some would hope for both home buyers and builders.
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The Amex and Wal-Mart venture could change what it means for the long-term viability of the prepaid card market’s old guard.
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The fact that Hurricane Sandy was downgraded before it made landfall on the East Coast will save homeowners potentially thousands of dollars in home insurance deductibles.
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It happened after hurricane Katrina, and the expectation is that Sandy will prove no different. “Demand for self-storage rises considerably as homeowners, contractors, and local suppliers set about preparing for reconstruction,” note analysts David Toti and Gaurav Mehta of Cantor Fitzgerald.