Tag Archives: Home Values

During the height of the housing crisis, approximately 30 percent of homeowners were in negative equity, owing more than what their homes were worth. A decade later, how have those numbers changed? Click through to read a recent report providing new insights into underwater mortgages.

Picking the most prosperous city in America is a weighty task. What factors should be considered, and how should each be weighted against the others? However you arrange the calculations, there’s a good chance you wouldn’t have settled on Odessa, ...

How has recent job growth impacted the housing and mortgage industry? Leading Economists weigh in.

The old real estate adage insists that location is everything, but how much truth does that hold when it comes to waterfront properties? A new study by Collateral Analytics puts waterfront real estate under the microscope to determine what factors ...

Those looking to get the biggest bang for their bucks would be most likely to find it west of the Mississippi, according to a new joint report by Trulia and Indeed. The firms looked at which American cities stretch paychecks the ...

Very often it’s easy to see why one house comes to market bearing a bigger-than-average price tag, but in other instances, it’s not so obvious. In those cases, it’s likely that a handful of more obscure and hard-to-measure price influencers ...

Home prices in February hit a four-year high, capping a 72-month run in which median home values rose nationally, according to a report by Redfin. But just because the prices went up does not mean sales went up. In fact, ...

The housing market has been growing at a consistent pace, but it will take another five years for it to emerge from the shadow of the Great Recession, according to experts surveyed by Zillow in its Home Price Expectations Survey. ...

According to a recent analysis, the most affordable homes on the market are making the greatest price gains. What factors are driving this appreciation?

A new report finds continuing escalation of housing prices amid a bullish economy. But industry insiders aren’t 100 percent happy with the whole housing picture.