affordability

Housing affordability puts more seasonal spring in home buyers’ step

As interest rates hover around record low levels and home prices bounce along the bottom, incomes are also cooperating to make housing more affordable than ever. Of course, all those favorable affordability conditions don’t amount to a hill of beans …

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U.S. Senate Bill 3085 is the rumored HARP 3.0

Rumors of a HARP 3.0 were not greatly exaggerated. The “Responsible Homeowner Refinancing Act of 2012″ would make it easier and less expensive to refinance under the Making Home Affordable initiative known as the Home Affordable Refinancing Program (HARP).

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Video-on-demand due as next frontier for Realtor.com’s listings

Remote controlled access to Realtor.com’s listings is the next big thing on the menu for digital access to homes for sale. Later this year, the Realtor.com Channel will add television displays to computer and smart mobile device displays as another …

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Just in Time: Happy Mother’s Day 2012

“I do understand why Time chose this picture…This isn’t how we breastfeed at home. It’s more of a cradling, nurturing situation.” Check back over the next several decades and see how son Aram does with all the publicity.

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San Jose, CA cleans up in USA Today ‘Make A Difference’ competition

San Jose, CA is one of three cities to win a USA Weekend Magazine Make a Difference Day award for the efforts of a city-school-neighborhood collaboration to rid an East San Jose area of graffiti, litter and blight.

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Keep Your Home California offers more value for families facing foreclosure, employment hardship

Qualified Californian homeowners have a shot at enhanced state programs that can reduce their mortgage principal by as much as $100,000 and pay up to $25,000 in late mortgage payments.

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The wolf was framed

A fractured fairy tale sets the record straight, revealing how three little pigs who couldn’t pay their mortgage became victims of their own despair in a slick video that isn’t really about housing.

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Buy homeowner’s insurance to fit your lifestyle

First-time home buyers, established homeowners, empty nesters and others in various stages of life need homeowners insurance that fits – not coverage that’s unnecessary.

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Avengers’ Earth-saving clash a $160 billion super disaster

The alien invasion would be as high as $70 billion with economic disruption and massive cleanup costs adding another $90 billion — not to mention the cost of thousands of injuries and lives lost.

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Mortgage rates at record lows for second consecutive week

If only lenders would loosen their purse strings on mortgage money. The market yielded a second consecutive week of record low interest rates on both the 30-year, conforming, fixed rate morgage (FRM) and the 15-year FRM, according to Freddie Mac’s “Primary Mortgage Market Survey.”

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affordability

Housing affordability puts more seasonal spring in home buyers’ step

As interest rates hover around record low levels and home prices bounce along the bottom, incomes are also cooperating to make housing more affordable than ever. Of course, all those favorable affordability

sjcleanup

San Jose, CA cleans up in USA Today ‘Make A Difference’ competition

JANICE ROMBECK - San Jose is one of three cities to win a USA Weekend Magazine Make a Difference Day award for the efforts of a city-school-neighborhood collaboration to rid an

calhfa

Keep Your Home California offers more value for families facing foreclosure, employment hardship

Qualified Californian homeowners have a shot at enhanced state programs that can reduce their mortgage principal by as much as $100,000 and pay up to $25,000 in late mortgage payments. Thanks to

boomtown

‘Turnaround Towns’ leading housing market to recovery

Seven housing markets hit hardest by foreclosure fallout in Florida and three markets in also hard-hit California are among the top 25 markets spearheading the national housing recovery. Unexpected new comers from

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Fiserv echoes growing sentiment: ‘Housing sector hit bottom last year’

FISERV – After years of large declines, the housing market is showing signs of stabilization. In the fourth quarter of 2011, home prices in 70 markets, representing 18 percent of the 384

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Zillow: ‘It’s time to start shopping’

In the latest report pointing to a housing recovery, Zillow says a 0.5 percent month-to-month rise in it's Home Value Index (ZHVI) marks the largest monthly increase since May 2006 -

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U.S. Senate Bill 3085 is the rumored HARP 3.0

Rumors of a HARP 3.0 were not greatly exaggerated. The rumors have panned out as legislation called the "Responsible Homeowner Refinancing Act of 2012." If passed, the act would make it easier

calhfa

Keep Your Home California offers more value for families facing foreclosure, employment hardship

Qualified Californian homeowners have a shot at enhanced state programs that can reduce their mortgage principal by as much as $100,000 and pay up to $25,000 in late mortgage payments. Thanks to

homeownersinsurance

Buy homeowner’s insurance to fit your lifestyle

First-time home buyers, established homeowners, empty nesters and others in various stages of life need homeowners insurance that fits - not coverage that's unnecessary. Policies tailored to fit a variety of

ratehouse

Mortgage rates at record lows for second consecutive week

If only lenders would loosen the purse strings on mortgage money. The average interest rate on 30-year fixed rate mortgages (FRMs) was 3.83 percent the week ending May 10, with an average

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Responsible Homeowners Refinancing Act of 2012: HARP 2.5, not HARP 3.0

It's not the HARP 3.0 rumored to be in the pipeline, but the Responsible Homeowners Refinancing Act of 2012 would give HARP 2.0 a boost and provide additional refinance relief for

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Pres. Obama’s ‘To Do List’ includes help for families who struggle, but manage to pay their mortgage

THE WHITE HOUSE - Today, President Obama traveled to the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering’s (CNSE) NanoTech Complex in Albany, NY to call on Congress to act on a “To

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Infographic: The White House listing

Rents’ pedal to the metal

NAHB: Housing starts still struggling

Bandits jumping on the timeshare bandwagon as industry gains speed

Do you really want your bank to be your landlord?

More renters move up to home ownership, still more returning to the nest

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Video-on-demand due as next frontier for Realtor.com’s listings

Infographic: Real estate agents and technology use

Infographic: Why some homes sell faster

Infographic: MLSListings launches MLS Source mobile app for SF Bay Area buyers, sellers, real estate professionals

Infographic: Mobile apps essential for real estate professionals, housing consumers

VaultPress saves DeadlineNews.Com’s assets after sticky mouse disaster

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Ashley Halligan blends the location-based world of real estate with a gusto for being on the go

VaultPress saves DeadlineNews.Com’s assets after sticky mouse disaster

Free article unearths real estate roots in original federal tax return

Original income tax return displays historic role of real estate as economic cornerstone

Free Valentine’s Day real estate story

What’s Amanda Seyfried got to do with real estate on Valentine’s Day?

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