Housing inventory is substantially down for existing properties, according to data from the National Association of Realtors, DeptOfNumbers and HousingTracker. Using data from 54 metropolitan areas, HousingTracker has found that active listings in early April were down 20.4 percent

Analysts at JPMorgan Chase have pinpointed arguably the most notable impact of the FHA’s new credit rule – its affect on builders and first-time homebuyers. As we reported just last week, a new regulation from the the FHA is now

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) added 13 more metropolitan areas to its Improving Markets Index (IMI), pushing the total to 101 cities. Representative of 35 states, the IMI, a unique survey of the nation’s best-performing urban area, has grown steadily

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By Claire Easley As the housing market entered its steep decline during the latter part of the past decade, it took home sizes with it. While there was much to bemoan about the state of the industry, among designers

By Lani Rosales, AGBeat RealSupport CEO and President Carrie Gable set out to put real estate assistants in agents’ offices without taking up an extra desk, making the process completely virtual. What separates RealSupport, founded in 2000, in the

By Lani Rosales, AGBeat The free tool FellowUp offers to be your virtual assistant by integrating your LinkedIn, Facebook and Google accounts and organizing not only your calendar items, but also your contacts’ demographic information and any notes you

Out of all the non-land, non-commercial properties listed for sale in MRED during 2011, how many are canceled, then relisted? The top chart shows that out of all the listings, 79 percent were never canceled or relisted, while 21

A new study by The Center for Housing Policy takes a detailed look at America’s older population and the housing needs those aging baby boomers will require. From the start, the study makes it clear that the number of Americans

The National Association of Realtors (NAR), spurred on by a better-than-expected early spring homebuying season, has modestly upgraded its economic projections for the next two years to better reflect the current economic climate – though as one analyst has

Longtime Chicago Realtor Jim Kinney will be the Illinois Association of Realtor’s (IAR) treasurer in 2013, a role that will allow him full access to all the advocacy, education and outreach efforts of the association. Kinney, whose works as the vice

  For the second consecutive year Karen Marposon, of Weichert, Realtors-Kingsland Properties in Naperville, has been named the top agent of all Weichert, Realtors offices in 36 states. The ‘Pinnacle Award’ is the highest honor given to associates by

The main thrust of housing’s spring selling season is just around the corner, and in 2012, homebuying may be helped from a most unlikely source – rental rates. In the post-boom housing economy, renting has ascended to its most

CoreLogic released the findings of its latest Home Price Index (HPI) yesterday, highlighting the profound impact of distressed sales on the U.S. housing market’s makeup. Excluding distressed sales, home values increased 0.7 percent from January to February and decreased

Back in January, the Treasury Department forcefully endorsed a potential principal reduction program from the FHFA, and the Wall Street Journal reports that the endorsement has placed newfound pressures on the agency’s director, Ed DeMarco, to act on the

Michael Pierson and Chris Eigel, principals of the real estate firm Prudential Rubloff Properties, reported the results of the Prudential Real Estate national survey, which shows that Americans are significantly more optimistic about homeownership than they were a year