Real Estate & Housing

[home with sold sign in front]

Jobs Report Has Bad Housing-Related Numbers

Although the October jobs report was considerably higher than expected, it contained numbers which indicate future problems in...

[house in a shopping cart]

America’s Driving the Next Subprime Bubble

Just as home sales and subprime mortgages inflated the real estate bubble in 2006 and 2007, today the...

[housing decline graph]

Pending Home Sales Dropped in September

For the first time in two years, pending sales of homes were lower than year-earlier levels, as reported...

[House for Rent]

Rental-Backed Security Bonds to be Offered by Blackstone

Rental-Backed Security Bonds to be Offered by Blackstone (CNBC) Mortgage-backed securities are dead. Long live rental-backed securities! Blackstone,...

[Burning $1 bill]

Did Janet Yellen Really Warn Us about the Housing Bubble?

The media recently has lauded Janet Yellen, Obama’s choice to become the next Fed chairman, for her prescient...

J.P. Morgan Bullish on Commercial Real Estate

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. reported that existing commercial real-estate loans rose 12 percent in the third quarter...

Real Profits in London’s Real Estate

Okay, “the Singaporeans are coming” may not have the same resonance as the U.S. revolutionary battle cry, but...

Apartments Climb Upwards

National apartment vacancy rates in the U.S. remain at four percent.

Four-Year Low on Mortgage Activity as Borrowing Costs Rise

In the week ending Sept. 6, the Mortgage Bankers Association announced that their seasonally adjusted index of mortgage...

Whack-a-Mole Real Estate Market; China to Assume Global Lead in Oil Imports by 2017; Canada Doesn’t Want to Stay on Target

For real estate investors, trying to get a handle on where the next surge in home value will...