Buffett predicts downturn will end in 2011
NEW YORK - March 2, 2010 - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett predicted that the real estate market downturn would end by 2011 as the housing inventory declines.
“Within a year or so, residential housing problems should largely be behind us,” Buffett wrote in his annual letter to the shareholders of [...]
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With each real estate transaction comes the opportunity for a rewarding friendship. Driving around town, seeing this home or that property with which we helped the sellers or buyers is like seeing old friends and family. It always yields a warm feeling of friendship [...]
Selling your home? Realtors pick nine green improvements to close deal
A new poll of nearly 1,000 Realtors offers a glimpse at the top “green” improvements recommended by real estate professionals to help move a sale property off the market.
The upgrades – which include planting native greenery, replacing air filters, staging the home with recycled or [...]
One in 20 Americans say they plan to buy a home within the next year, and they’re most likely to be 34 years old or younger and living in the South or West, according to a survey released Wednesday.
Roughly a quarter of potential buyers said the No. 1 reason they would buy now is because [...]
RISMEDIA, September 8, 2009-House prices in the U.S. continued to depreciate in the second quarter 2009 but at a much more moderate rate compared to the fourth quarter 2008, the peak of the collapse in home prices, according to a quarterly housing valuation analysis by IHS Global Insight. Prices fell at a 2.7% annualized rate [...]
Make no bones about it, with respect to our real estate market, that was then and THIS is NOW. As with any commodity market, values change. In the grand scheme of things, real estate is just that, a commodity.
The underlying force affecting price is supply and demand. It really doesn’t matter what triggers it, it’s going [...]
WASHINGTON - Sept. 1, 2009 - Contract activity for pending home sales has risen for six straight months, a pattern not seen in the history of the index since it began in 2001, according to the National Association of Realtors® (NAR).
The Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contracts signed in July, increased [...]
Office prices rise for the first time in two years
NEW YORK – Aug. 24, 2009 – The sale prices of U.S. office properties rose 4.3 percent in the second quarter, the first increase since the second quarter of 2007, according to a report from ratings agency Moody’s.
The second-quarter increase is significantly different from what happened [...]
FINALLY!
“The pace of decline in residential real estate slowed in April,” says David Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & Poor’s. “Thirteen of the 20 metro areas also saw improvement in their annual return compared to that of March. While one month’s data cannot determine if a turnaround has begun, it seems that [...]
New rules to safeguard the integrity of home appraisals are complicating the deals they’re supposed to protect. Real estate agents, mortgage brokers and buyers, as well as homeowners who want to refinance their loans, are feeling the effects of rules designed to prevent inflationary appraisals that helped fuel the housing boom.
Since May 1, home appraisals [...]