As heard in reports, activity from institutional investors looms large in California, evidenced by cash sales, which are generally linked to investors. According to ""PropertyRadar"":http://www.propertyradar.com/, cash sales for properties in...

Initial unemployment insurance claims fell 7,000 for the week ending March 2, closing the week at an advance estimate of 340,000, the ""Labor Department"":http://www.ows.doleta.gov/unemploy/ ""reported Thursday"":http://www.ows.doleta.gov/press/2013/030713.asp. [IMAGE] The decline represents...

...Report"":http://www2.interthinx.com/MFRR_2012Q4, the mortgage fraud risk index climbed to 159, representing a 16 percent increase from Q3 2012 and 9 percent increase from Q4 2011. Interthinx pinpointed the source of the...

Home prices will increase by 3.1 percent in 2013 and top off 2012 with a 4.6 percent gain, according to ""Zillow's"":http://www.zillow.com/ December Home Price Expectations Survey. [IMAGE] The survey, which...

After reaching a year-to-date high in October, consumer confidence continued to climb in November, according to ""The Conference Board's"":http://www.conference-board.org/ recently released _Consumer Confidence Index_. [IMAGE] The index, which is based...

...ago. Total starts rose in two of the four census regions, improving 34,000 in the West to 232,000 and 13,000 in the Midwest to 159,000 while dropping 11,000 in the...

...and serious delinquencies (90-plus days) fell 8.1 percent yearly. Foreclosure starts, which numbered about 159,000, hit their lowest level since September 2007 and were down 27.9 percent yearly. Foreclosure inventory...

The ""Federal Housing Finance Agency's"":http://www.fhfa.gov/ (FHFA) House Price Index (HPI) continued its upward crawl in August, rising 0.7 percent from July, according to a release from the agency. For the...

If current trends persist, this year may be the first year since 2006 the housing market records an annual price increase, according to a report released Thursday by ""Trulia"":http://www.trulia.com/. [IMAGE]...

After bailing out American International Group, Inc. (AIG) at a price tag of $182.3 billion, ""Treasury"":http://www.treasury.gov/Pages/default.aspx and the ""Federal Reserve"":http://www.federalreserve.gov/ are expecting to see their full investment back, plus a...