Housing Research
The Housing Research Center is a consumer resource loaded with expert information on buying, selling and investing in real estate with insight on the many facets of being a home owner.
Find the latest news on the evolving mortgage crisis, and information on navigating through the troubled waters of the home owners insurance market. In addition, a fixer upper king of nearly 20 years reveals his secrets and insights to help you avoid making big mistakes.
The good new is it's a buyer's market in most areas throughout the country and interest rates still remain relatively low. Arm yourself with knowledge to take advantage of the current marketplace.
It's a whole new ball game when it comes to selling real estate in today's highly competitive marketplace. Get tips to help you sell.
A new forecast shows how markets will recover from the unprecedented fall. Housing Predictor forecasted the crisis nearly 3 years ago and now forecasts the recovery's path.
The housing rescue bill provides nothing more than an anemic effort to improve the housing market.
A little planning goes a long way when moving from point A to point B. Moving tips to help you from breaking the bank.
With a growing number of foreclosures, housing markets across the nation are experiencing the biggest buyers market in decades.
Make money on investment property in a boom or bust market. Get the secrets the fat cats don't want you to know.
Due to the credit crisis mortgage lending guidelines are tighter than ever before, which makes protecting your credit score more important than ever before.
Evicted from their homes by foreclosure and job losses the homeless are flocking to tent cities creating America's new real estate boom.
While the insurance industry is raking in record high profits. In many states affordable home owners insurance is getting harder and harder to find, if not impossible.
The epidemic of foreclosures is rising despite a slight slowdown in activity. Year over year foreclosures rose 18%.
The senate's defeat of a bill puts the best interest of big banks first. The defeat outrages millions of American homeowners.
Just a few years ago it seemed anyone could qualify for a mortgage, but times have changed as lenders have gotten back to basics.
The current financial crisis is taking on its own powerful personality that may not send the national economy into a depression, but instead produce another real estate boom.
As the number of foreclosures rise in the deteriorating economy homeowners are walking away from their homes at historic rates.
As the nation's housing crisis worsens more homeowners are choosing to freely walk-away from their homes as values sink deeper and the social stigma associated with defaulting on a mortgage is disappearing.
As a result of the credit crisis a boom in the majority of the nation's housing markets won't develop until at least sometime after 2020.
Trading homes for vacation and other purposes is growing.
Even with more mortgage lenders facing financial jeopardy fewer short sales are being approved.
Seven reasons short sales don't succeed.
Propelled by the foreclosure epidemic, home ownership has fallen to a new low.
In the on going national real estate slowdown the luxury housing market is taking a hit of it's own.
New Urbanist communities are about to celebrate their 30th anniversary.
But changes in the marketplace pose challenges for their survival.
With hundreds of thousands of homeowners being forced to sell, home inspections may be more crucial than ever.
One of the most misunderstood aspects of real estate is Homestead protection and it could save your home from creditors. Find out the difference between "Homestead Exemption" and "Homestead Declaration" and which one will save your home.
Law originally passed to protect buyers from investing in worthless swamp land is now rescuing buyers in other states.
Just a short while ago high end home improvements made big bucks. But in today's buyers market investing too much could mean losing your shirt.
The majority of local real estate markets have all time high foreclosure rates, which makes them ripe for investing. Whether you're a seasoned investor or just getting started investing in real estate you don't want to miss this.
The MacGregors are not unlike a lot of other Americans wanting to have a piece of the American dream. They tell their story about acquiring their dream of home ownership only to have it turn into a hellish nightmare.
Twenty-two years after suffering through the agony of foreclosure during the height of the U.S. Savings and Loan Fraud Scandal, Leigh Neely describes how America's last great mortgage scandal devastated her family.
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