By Peter Ricci You gotta hand it to home appraisals – they are persistent buggers. Despite repeated coverage by the press and constant pressure by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), every month, an uncomfortable share of Realtors report

By Natalie Terchek The latest Redfin Redfin Real-Time Price Tracker reports that national home prices increased 5 percent from a year ago in September, despite their typical seasonal decline, and decreased just under 1 percent from August. The results matched their

By Peter Ricci The presidential election cycle is massive – all-encompassing, even – and it has the nasty habit of overwhelming the daily news cycles and rendering all other news items obsolete. But of course, the United States does

Foreclosure filings in the month of September were down 7 percent from August and 16 percent from September 2011, according to the latest U.S. Foreclosure Market Report from RealtyTrac. All in all, the 180,427 foreclosure filings reported in the

By Peter Ricci Realogy shares have leapt 25 percent in the first day of trading after a hugely successful IPO for the real estate services company, according to market reports. This marks the second successful real estate IPO in

by Peter Ricci The latest National Housing Survey from Fannie Mae is finding consumer confidence on the housing market at an all-time high, bolstered by record-low mortgage rates and rising prices. A survey of 1,000 Americans, Fannie conducted the

by Peter Ricci Residential shadow housing inventory declined 10.2 percent year-over-year in July in CoreLogic’s latest survey of the market, as the housing market’s inventory levels continued to improve. Bearing no signs of the frightful predictions that many analysts

By Peter Ricci Twenty agents in the Houston metropolitan area were featured in the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals’ (NAHREP) first ever ranking of the top Latino real estate agents in the United States. For its list, which

By Peter Ricci The REO inventory for Freddie Mac is down 30 percent from its 2010 peak, according to new data from the GSE. Chris Bowden, the vice president of Freddie Mac’s HomeSteps unit, said at HousingWire’s REperform Summit

By Peter Ricci One of the more common housing memes, as of late, has been the end of suburbia, that because of the housing boom, and all the rampant suburban speculation that drove it, prospective homebuyers are opting for

By Peter Ricci We recently wrote that prospective home sellers should not count out the fall and winter months for their real estate needs, and based on the October Real-Time Demand Pulse from Redfin, it appears quite a few homeowners

By Peter Ricci Housing investors have been one of the more interesting outcomes of the post-boom real estate market, as they have snatched up the scores of highly inexpensive distressed properties that sit throughout the country – and according

By Peter Ricci Real estate writing, as any successful agent can anecdotally support, can have a profound impact on how quickly a property sells and at what price, but a series of fascinating studies recently spotlighted by the Wall

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) added 11 more metropolitan areas to its Improving Markets Index for October, a measure of the nation’s housing markets that are showing definite signs of recovery. A measure of specific housing markets’

By Peter Ricci Amidst a closely-watched and increasingly divisive presidential election season, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released the Obama administration’s latest Housing Scorecard, a measure of the U.S. housing market that highlighted a number

By Peter Ricci Acting Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Commissioner Carol Galante has announced that the FHA has no plans to incorporate an REO-to-rental program similar to that of the FHFA. Making her comments at the HousingWire REperform conference currently