Tag Archives: Economic Recovery

New Housing Fears: Home Prices Are Rising Too Fast

As a result, home prices are now rising more and faster than most analysts predicted due to this short supply, up 7.4 percent year-over-year in November, according to CoreLogic. They are especially surging in some of the hardest hit markets … Continue reading

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Is the Refi ‘Apocalypse’ Really Upon Us?

In Bethesda, Maryland, Apex Home Loans CEO, Craig Strent, says a rise in rates could actually bring in more business in the short term. “There is a huge population that have benefitted from adjustable rate mortgages. When the rates adjusted, … Continue reading

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Home Builders Bullish for Fifth Straight Month

The nation’s once-beleaguered home builders are more confident than they have been in six years. A surge in new orders for homes, especially among the big public builders, pushed builder sentiment on an industry survey up three points to the … Continue reading

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Real estate vet Kiel: This economic recovery better than after 1984

Allen Kiel is president of Commercial Real Estate Services for Citywide Banks of Denver. Dennis Huspeni Reporter- Denver Business Journal Email  | Facebook  | Twitter  | Real Deals blog Allen Kiel knows Denver’s commercial real estate market, especially the office market, like few … Continue reading

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Why Drop in Foreclosures Is Bad for Housing Market

In a normal housing market, lack of supply is generally considered a good thing. When demand outweighs supply, home prices rise and homeowners gain equity. Like so many things in this historic economic recovery, that premise doesn’t exactly apply. This … Continue reading

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Housing: Bottom, Reversal or Just Noisy Numbers

The spring housing numbers aren’t coming in along expectations. That can’t be, right? Unemployment has been easing, mortgage delinquencies falling, and affordability is off the charts. That means housing should be bouncing back with verve and vigor this Spring, except … Continue reading

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Rents Fell Last Year, But In Many Cities Still ‘Too Damn High’

Rents fell across the United States last year, but landlords got choosier. Overall average rent in the U.S. dropped to $820 in the fourth quarter of 2011 from $831 in the same time period in 2010, according to new data … Continue reading

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State of the Union Preview: Housing and Fairness Don’t Connect

If the theme of tonight’s State of the Union address is fairness, then President Obama would be wise to steer clear of housing; most of the proposals to fix the nation’s still struggling real estate market are intrinsically unfair to … Continue reading

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Stoner & Company pursuing funding for Nine Bridges site at I-25, Harmony

<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 14–> The ambitious project has always included a waterway meandering among retail, residential, commercial and office space. Through the years, plans have ebbed and flowed, heated up and cooled down, created conflict among neighboring towns and gone … Continue reading

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Home Builder Sentiment Posts Biggest Gain in Over Year

Despite sluggish summer sales, confidence among the nation’s home builders is gaining strength, posting its largest gain since April 2010, when the now-expired home buyer tax credit brought more buyers into the market. Confidence on the National Association of Home … Continue reading

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