Archive for the ‘Real Estate’ Category

How does a senior benefit by taking out a reverse mortgage?

Are you a cash-strapped senior? If answered yes, you must be worried about the prospects of getting a loan and again being obligated to repay the entire amount. The seniors in the US have a good option to take out a reverse mortgage after calculating their home equity with the help of a mortgage calculator [...]

University of Michigan Survey of Consumers June 2011 (Early)

Today’s early release of the Reuters/University of Michigan Survey of Shoppers for June indicated a worsening of consumer sentiment with a looking at of 71.eight falling five.53% down below the degree seen final 12 months although 1 yr inflation expectations declined to four%.The Index of Customer Expectations (a part of the Index of Top Economic [...]

Beantown Bust: Boston Home Sales and Prices April 2011

Searching at the latest data from the Massachusetts Association of Realtors and S&P/Scenario-Shiller, it is easy to see that the Bay State is now entirely entrenched in the notorious housing “double-dip”. Rates and income are falling, stock is up and the regular monthly supply is about ten months… now with no federal government tax rip-off [...]

Hong Kong Bubble?: Hong Kong Residential Property Prices April 2011

These days, the University of Hong Kong launched their Hong Kong Residential Actual Estate Sequence (HKU-REIS) indicating that, in April, the price tag of residential attributes increased 1.52% given that March climbing 25.55% previously mentioned the degree noticed in April 2010. The “Hong Kong Island” index, “Kowloon” and “New Territories” sub-parts also showed notabl monthly [...]

Is The Housing Market Improving?

Taking into account several years of gloomy information from the U.S. residential housing market, this month’s data remains mixed. Is recuperation honestly within the works? Lets look at exactly what the numbers say: Foreclosures Depending on records from real-estate data organization RealtyTrac, foreclosures during January are down, the next consecutive month to month decrease. The [...]