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Home Prices Up 5.9% Last Year — Zillow

Posted: January 22, 2013 at 3:37 am

Research firm Zillow reported home prices rose 5.9% last year and should be up another 3.3% in 2013. As ought to be expected, given the magnitude of the drop in some ...
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Small Towns with Soaring Housing Markets

Posted: September 24, 2012 at 6:22 am

The advantages of small-town living are well known to Americans -- and not just because of Norman Rockwellesque clichés about values, neighborliness and pace of life. These days, most prosperous small ...
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People Under 40 Battered by Negative Home Equity

Posted: August 23, 2012 at 6:45 am

The idea that a home is a good long-term investment continues to get battered. Like most theories about money return, the calculations are based on a house being bought and held ...
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Home Prices Bottom

Posted: July 24, 2012 at 7:10 am

Real estate research firm Zillow (NASDAQ: Z) reports that home prices have stabilized, based on data from the second quarter. This is the latest evidence that the sickening drop that ...
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Cities with the Most Homes Underwater

Posted: May 25, 2012 at 6:20 am

Mortgage debt continues to be a major issue in the United States, nearly six years after home prices peaked, according to a report released Thursday by online real estate site ...
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Housing Through Yet Another Set of Eyes

Posted: December 23, 2011 at 5:42 am

The housing market is down -- sales, prices, applications. And there is glut of research that shows how much and why. The Federal Housing Finance Agency said that in October prices fell ...
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Underwater Mortgages Go More Underwater, Miami and Phoenix Hit

Posted: November 8, 2011 at 4:57 pm

The number of underwater mortgages in the U.S. increased again in the third quarter. That makes sense because by most measures home values have fallen throughout the period. It also ...
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Nine Reasons The Economy Will Soar By 2020

Posted: October 24, 2011 at 3:38 am

No one can predict the future with absolute certainty but many make educated projections. 24/7 Wall St. has reviewed long-term economic forecasts issued by the government, financial analysts, and academics. ...
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US Housing Market Disintegrates In First Quarter, Worse Since 2008 Lows

Posted: May 9, 2011 at 6:05 am

There is hardly any legitimate research that shows an improvement in the US housing market. That was confirmed again today as real estate website Zillow released its first quarter analysis. ...
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Media Digest (5/9/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 9, 2011 at 4:04 am

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) moved past Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) as the world's most valuable brand, according to research firm Millward Brown. (Reuters) New negotiations between China and the US seeks to ...
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Another Bogus Real Estate Market Statistic

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 5:35 pm

The real estate web site Zillow ginned up a real doozy of a statistic about the state of the real estate market today arguing that the "Zillow Home Value Index ...
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Underwater Mortgages — Measuring the Unmeasurable

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 5:35 am

Underwater mortgages are a serious problem affecting the economy, but much of the conventional wisdom about the issue makes no sense. For instance, no one is quite sure how many ...
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US Home Values To Drop $1.7 Trillion In 2010

Posted: December 9, 2010 at 8:14 am

The aggregate value of homes in the United States will drop $1.7 trillion this year after a drop of $1 trillion in 2009. That data comes from a report from ...
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Home Values Continue Record Drops

Posted: November 10, 2010 at 5:16 am

The decline of home prices continues at an unprecedented breakneck speed. According to real estate research firm Zillow, "U.S. home values continued to decline in the third quarter, falling 4.3 ...
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Real Estate Market Plunges

Posted: August 24, 2010 at 10:18 am

Real estate sales have just plunged by a nearly unimaginable amount. According to the the National Association of Realtors, existing-home sales, which are completed transactions that include single-family, townhomes, condominiums ...
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