Tag Archives: Percentage Points

Record High New Home Prices Have Room to Grow

Supplies of new and existing homes are at levels not seen since the frenzy of the last housing boom. The phenomenon is national and not just relegated to the former boom markets. April listings were down 41 percent from a … Continue reading

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Home Prices Rise, but Analysts See Pressure Ahead

While sales of existing homes are still on a bumpy road to recovery, home prices are seeing steady gains.  Nationally, prices rose 2.6 percent in August, according to a repeat sales index from Lender Processing Services. Prices are up an … Continue reading

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Rising Optimism in Housing Doesn’t Compute

An increasing number of Americans are starting to believe in home price appreciation again. Perhaps it’s the excitement of an early spring market, perhaps the fact that unemployment has been steadily easing, or perhaps just the fact that we haven’t … Continue reading

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Parsing Home Prices Proves Precarious

Another day, another double-dose of home price reports, a home sentiment survey and a weekly report on mortgage applications. All seem to point in different directions. Both Lender Processing Services and CoreLogic released home price data, the former for December … Continue reading

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Study: Number of smartphone users who download apps doubles in two years

The Denver Post’s reporters and editors offer news, analysis and commentary on the latest business, real estate, tourism, gambling and technology news in Colorado. Got an app for that? A fast-growing number of smartphone users are saying yes. The share … Continue reading

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Single-family home outlook improves in Denver

Dennis Huspeni Reporter – Denver Business Journal Email  | Facebook  | Twitter  | Real Deals blog Sales are up, and foreclosure rate and inventory are down, for single-family homes in the metro Denver market, according to three studies recently released. The information gleaned … Continue reading

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Home Ownership May Fall More Than Expected

Sometimes you hear one thing and don’t think much of it, and then you hear another thing that makes the first thing seem much more important. This morning the Mortgage Bankers Association put out a report from two UCLA researchers … Continue reading

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More Borrowers Underwater: Why We Should Care

Falling home prices at the turn of the year pushed more borrowers into a negative equity position, meaning they owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth. In Q4, 23 percent of borrowers nationwide, or 11.1 million, were … Continue reading

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