Wednesday, March 01 2006 @ 08:13 pm UTC
Contributed by: jron
A trade group reported yesterday, sales of existing homes dropped to their lowest level in nearly two years in January, and the number of unsold homes on the market rose. A survey showed a surprising dip in consumer expectations, and the Commerce Department revised upward measures of economic growth and inflation in the fourth quarter, also reported yesterday.
Wednesday, March 01 2006 @ 06:34 pm UTC
Contributed by: jron
Showing no signs of a slowdown during the period, federal regulators reported Wednesday, Average U.S. home prices leaped nearly 13 percent from the fourth quarter of 2004 to the same period last year.
Tuesday, February 28 2006 @ 10:55 pm UTC
Contributed by: jron
Jane Fairchild couldn't imagine how she'd ever own a home, A high school social worker and single mom earning $46,000 a year. Fairchild had no idea about the numerous programs available to help potential home buyers in her salary range, like many lower- to middle-income earners.
Tuesday, February 28 2006 @ 09:40 pm UTC
Contributed by: jron
A 1946 Supreme Court opinion, Markham v. Allen, defined the exception, which holds that federal courts can hear claims brought by heirs of a decedent’s estate as long as a federal court doesn’t interfere with state court probate proceedings. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in a case that will determine the scope of the federal courts’ probate exception, once described by Seventh Circuit judge Richard Posner as “one of the most mysterious and esoteric branches of the law of federal jurisdiction.”
Tuesday, February 28 2006 @ 09:05 pm UTC
Contributed by: jron
According to a report from Deutsche Bank, London Real estate companies like Brixton and Slough Estates may be attractive to investors seeking to minimize losses that might result from a feared outbreak of avian influenza in Europe.
Tuesday, February 28 2006 @ 08:17 pm UTC
Contributed by: jron
Sales declined 5 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis, leaving a record backlog of 528,000 newly built single-family homes that remain unsold. The nation's new-home market cooled significantly in January despite unseasonably warm weather in most of the country, the Commerce Department reported today.
Tuesday, February 28 2006 @ 04:14 pm UTC
Contributed by: jron
The trend of overgrowth of investment in China's real estate sectors has been curbed, the overheated demand for houses is cooling down, and the supply and demand relations on real estate market are improving, creating conditions for a stable housing market, with a series of macro control policies promulgated and implemented in 2005.