The direction and health of the housing market is on everyone’s mind. We tackle the 25 biggest real estate questions.
Ming Dong, a 37 year old biochemist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory near San Francisco and a regular reader of housing blogs, needs some answers before placing his bet on real estate. He’d be happy with [...]
About 12% of eligible borrowers have begun trial modifications of their mortgages since the start of a $75 billion federal program to rework home loans into more affordable monthly payments, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday.
Since the program’s launch in March, 360,165 borrowers had received three month trial modifications through August. If they keep up their [...]
Buying a house in the U.S. hasn’t been this affordable in a generation. Not only have housing prices plunged from Miami to Los Angeles, but interest rates are near historic lows. And for first time buyers who act fast, Uncle Sam will kick in $8,000 toward the purchase.
Interestingly, the most affordable and least affordable housing [...]