All posts tagged forecast
Infographic: 2012 shaping up as good time to buy
It’s buying time again. A host of factors point to 2012 as a good time to buy a home. Interest rates are low The average interest rate on 30-year conforming fixed rate mortgages (FRMs) hit a record low of 3.87 [...]
Home sellers lower prices to compete, bidding wars ensue, recovery heats up
We recently gave Chinese astrology some mystical credit for the Year of the Dragon's positive impact on the 2012 real estate market. Sellers, however, don't really need to read
Investors: Let’s get this party started
If you think investors are charging the housing recovery, you ain't seen nothing yet. Investors, hand picking individual properties, working in groups, buying in bulk and smacking down all-cash
Zillow experts take a ‘Mulligan,’ retreat from past housing recovery forecast
On tough news from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, Zillow's real estate market experts pulled a do-over on their forecast for home prices this year. It didn't help their
Burns Consulting: Lagging indicators may have cost home buyers bottom-market deals
If you've been waiting for the housing market to hit bottom, you may have waited too long. John Burns Consulting reported this week, buyers seeking the greatest bottom market
Silicon Valley’s ‘Facebook Factor’
STEFAN WALKER - More talk about Facebook than football at a recent Super Bowl party indicates the upcoming Facebook IPO has the potential for far-reaching impact on Silicon
Light at the end of the housing crisis tunnel not shining in the Midwest
With the Midwest hardest hit by the housing crisis, home value declines elsewhere appear to be easing. The Northeast appears nearest to bottoming out, but most markets remain
Meltdown nears end in mashup forecast of mixed hope for 2012 national housing market
A mashup of several market indices puts the housing recovery start somewhere between 2012 and 2013 thanks, in part, to growing consumer confidence in the economy. • Clear Capital's
Triple-dip could pile on housing doom and gloom
In a mashup of three recent housing market reports, home ownership has suffered its greatest bust since the Great Depression, 10 million more foreclosures may be headed for
Housing prices unlikely to recover before 2020
FICO — FICO’s latest quarterly survey of bank risk professionals offered a decidedly pessimistic outlook, reversing the growing optimism seen in late 2010 and early 2011. The survey,
Few bright spots in blue Beige Book
The residential real estate market remains dim nationwide, with only faint glimmers of light in a few Federal Reserve Districts, according to the latest Beige Book. The Federal Reserve
Housing recovery forecasts go 'Poof!'
Remember when Zillow predicted housing was due to begin recovery in the third quarter of 2010? Later, 2011 became the year to bank on. Fiserv, the National Association of Realtors
Predicted home price 'double dip' arrives, price bottom delayed until 2012
The long anticipated double-dip in home prices has arrived. And it comes with the lowest interest rates of the year, but tight credit and slow employment gains aren't allowing
More bad news for Gulf area home values
Much of the nation is poised to recover from the worst housing downturn since the Great Depression, but the Gulf of Mexico area's housing markets could be in
Housing’s hard landing due third quarter 2010
Credit score myths Nearly one-in-four homeowners were underwater on their mortgage, foreclosures reached a new peak and home values in most U.S. market continued to slide, all in the
Full housing recovery at least a decade away
There's a growing litany of reasons the housing market remains in deep doo doo -- and as many as 10 years away from the kind of solid ground
National housing bust for four more quarters
If you've been wondering when the housing market will turn around, Moody's Economy.com says it has the answer -- early 2009 -- provided market conditions cooperate. The report, "Aftershock:
