10 Cities With The Highest Home Price Increases
Tweet Housing prices have continually made headlines so far this year, as prices trend upwards and mortgage rates follow suit. While this has created speculation of a bubble, investors have been...
View ArticleThe 50 Hardest Working Cities In America
Tweet If you really want work your tail off to get ahead, you’ll need to move to Seattle, aka America’s Hardest Working City. A new Movoto Real Estate’s Big Deal List compiles the cities in America...
View ArticleHousing Markets Where Cash Is King
Tweet In June, 58% of the sales in Nevada were made in all-cash, according to a report by RealtyTrac. But it’s not just Nevada. All-cash deals in Florida comprised 57% of home sales during the month;...
View ArticleThe 50 Best U.S. Cities For Employment Satisfaction
Tweet Employee opinion group Glassdoor has released its study of the “50 Best U.S. Cities for Employment Satisfaction.” No one should be surprised that these cities are mostly very affluent have...
View ArticleHardest-Hit Atlanta Market Is Finally On The Rebound
Tweet Atlanta, one of the cities hit hardest during the housing bust, is also one of the slowest to stabilize. Still, by all indicators, housing is fully rebounding in 2013. And it seems even Atlanta...
View ArticleHome Prices Up: A Look At Case-Shiller By Metro Area
Tweet Home prices extended a winning streak of year-over-year gains and two cities surpassed their prefinancial crisis peaks, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller indexes. The composite 20-city home...
View ArticleAfter Years Of Recession, Puget Sound Housing Market Booming
Tweet Real estate experts call it a mini power surge of sales as every indicator in the Puget Sound housing industry is showing double-digit gains. One spot at the height of the rebound is Tehaleh, a...
View ArticleBest College Towns to Invest in Real Estate: Baltimore Tops The List
Tweet A college education and a home purchase are arguably two of the most important investments you can make. As this fall’s freshman class prepares to invest in their future, consider buying a house...
View ArticleLas Vegas Takes Property Market Spotlight
Tweet Move over Miami, there’s a new leader in the U.S. property market recovery. That’s according to data provided by Clear Capital, which reports that Las Vegas is now the national leader in...
View ArticleHousing Recovery Radar: Where Are The Next Hot Spots?
Tweet The housing recovery is starting to heat up. In a recent report from Realtor.com, the towns seeing the hottest recoveries, based on factors such as inventory, median list price, days on the...
View ArticleAmerica’s 10 Hottest Housing Markets
Tweet The nation’s housing market continues to show a promising turnaround. Home prices rose by more than 5% between the second quarter of 2012 and the second quarter of 2013. Homes also are selling...
View ArticleTexas Housing Market Stands To Benefit From Job Creation
Tweet A healthy housing market and strong employment figures go hand-in-hand. You can’t have one without the other, and it seems Texas has both. The Lone Star State added 21,400 jobs in July, up 2.33%...
View ArticlePayrolls Rose In 32 U.S. States In July, Led By California
Tweet Payrolls increased in 32 U.S. states in July, and the unemployment rate climbed in 28, indicating progress in the labor market remains uneven. California led the nation with a 38,100 gain in...
View ArticleLocation, Employment Helping Some Markets See Faster Recovery
Tweet The positive indicators seen in housing markets across the country are not a mirage, but a true recovery, according to RealtyTrac VP Daren Blomquist and a panel of six real estate professionals...
View ArticleUpstate New York, Southwest Florida, Bay Area California Lead Recovery
Tweet The housing recovery is widespread, though it is moving at different paces in various geographies, according to the Housing Market Recovery Index RealtyTrac. Metros in upstate New York,...
View ArticleThe 50 Funniest Cities In America
Tweet What cities in the U.S. have the best comedy scenes? Movoto created a formula based on six criteria, including the number of comedy clubs per capita, comedy/improv festivals and where comedians...
View ArticleHouston Housing Market Continues To Break Records
Tweet The supply of homes for sale has gone up for the first time in more than a year, a new report shows, a welcome sign in Houston’s constrained housing market. Inventory of single-family homes for...
View ArticleRealtyTrac Ranks Top Markets For Health And Wealth
Tweet Texas, North and South Dakota, Utah, North Carolina, California, Tennessee, Montana, Wyoming, Iowa and Arkansas were named the top housing markets for good health and building real estate wealth...
View ArticleHome Prices In Texas, Colorado Hit New Highs In June
Tweet As national home prices recover from the peak, Texas and Colorado are already busy setting new highs, data from Lender Processing Services, Inc. (LPS) revealed. In June, national home prices...
View ArticleBest Job Markets For Raking It In, Avoiding Envy, Or Sleeping Late
Tweet Labor Day is as good a time as any to remember that looking for a home and looking for a job often go hand-in-hand. The top reason why people move to another state is for a new job or job...
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