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California Home Values Improving, Foreclosure Activity Declining
Pro Teck Valuation Services released the company’s October Home Value Forecast (HVF). “Two years ago much of the bad news was centered on California, a non-judicial state. Foreclosures were driving...
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Miami’s Property Market Leading U.S. Housing Recovery
Following record breaking sales activity for nearly three years, the Miami real estate market saw unprecedented growth in the third quarter of 2013 as demand for local real estate and limited supply...
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‘I Wanted To Be Successful, And I Could Do That In Houston’
Dena Washington isn’t the sort of Millennial we tend to read about in scary trend pieces about a “doomed” generation. She’s 28 and married, with a son in elementary school. She’s college-educated and...
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10 U.S. Housing Markets On The Rebound Right Now
In a tumultuous summer in the American housing market that saw home prices and mortgage rates rise, the nation’s housing recovery was led by cities as diverse as Detroit, Santa Barbara, Calif., and...
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Why Some Expensive Cities May Be More Affordable Than We Think
Most lists of the least affordable metros in America include San Francisco, New York, Boston, and Washington – four cities that share a notable characteristic beyond their hefty housing prices. They...
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Texas Housing Market Reacts To Massive Influx Of New Residents
The Texas housing market is reacting to the massive influx of new residents spurred to move to the Lone Star state in search of high-paying energy and professional service jobs, as well as low cost of...
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The 10 Smartest Cities In North America
Which cities are doing the most to become the sustainable, connected, innovative city of the future? Today’s cities demand 21st century solutions to accommodate their growing populations in ways that...
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America’s Top 10 “Back To Normal” Housing Markets
Of the 100 largest metros, 10 are back to normal or nearly there for both prices and permits. These include Austin, Dallas, and Houston in Texas; Orange County, San Francisco, and San Jose in...
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Nation’s Healthiest Housing Markets Found In The West, According To New...
The nation’s healthiest housing markets in October are clustered in California and the rest of the West, according to the newly released Zillow Market Health Index. Zillow’s Market Health Index,...
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2013′s Best Performing American Cities
To the casual observer, the narratives of economic growth in American cities seem fairly obvious: the Sunbelt is adding people, the Rustbelt is failing, and big cities like New York, Chicago, Boston...
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5 Biggest Housing Comebacks Of 2013
We would all prefer to forget the U.S. housing market crash. Six years later, it has grown more distant as the market continues to recover from record foreclosures and spiraling home prices. In...
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The Metro Areas With The Most Economic Momentum Going Into 2014
To identify the regions with the most momentum coming out of the recession, Forbes used four metrics: GDP growth, job growth, real median household income growth and current unemployment. To measure...
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Best Buy Cities: Where To Invest In Housing In 2014
Buying a home can be a great investment, as investors gobbling up properties over the last few years – when prices and mortgage rates were at the bottom – well know. Now, with homes prices and rates...
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More People Moving To Oregon
Oregon was the number one destination among people who moved from one state to another last year. More than 61% of all interstate moves made in Oregon were for people coming to live in the state,...
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Housing Markets Continue To Show Gradual Improvement
Markets in 56 out of the approximately 350 metro areas nationwide returned to or exceeded their last normal levels of economic and housing activity, according to the latest National Association of...
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Twin Cities Housing Hits 5-Year High; Median Price Jumps 14.4%
By nearly every measure, 2013 was a banner year for the Twin Cities housing market with sales rising to the highest level since 2005, and prices hitting a five-year high. Buyers closed on almost...
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Ten Cities Where Energy Efficiency Should Sell
According to data collected for last October, the average home bill for utilities (defined as electricity and gas) and essential home services (defined as phone, television, and high-speed Internet)...
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The Healthiest Places In America
With the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, everyone seems to have something to say about the state of health care in America. NerdWallet sifted through data available on the 50 largest metropolitan...
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How Hot Is Houston’s Housing Market? Scorching.
Tales of multiple buyers bidding up prices are pretty common in Houston. But how often do sellers actually get more than they ask for when selling a house? Turns out, nearly one in five sellers fetch...
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Dallas-Area Housing Market Soared Last Year; 2014 Looks Promising, Too
Last year’s bull housing market will be hard to top in 2014. Dallas-area home sales rose almost 20 percent from the previous year, and prices jumped more than 10 percent – more than double the average...
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