Author: Editorial Staff

Foreclosures were up slightly in January, but still down 18 percent from January of last year, according to RealtyTrac’s  U.S. Foreclosure Market Report. “The monthly increase in January foreclosure activity… more

Mortgage rates broke a five-week long streak of declines, with the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rate increasing 4.48 percent, according to Bankrate.com’s weekly national survey. The average 30-year fixed mortgage… more

Real estate is the top alternative investment millionaires are considering this year according to a new report from Morgan Stanley. “After a year where the Standard & Poor’s Index rose… more

  Housing Wire magazine has a headline asking whether real estate investor home sales mask a weak housing market, and whether the hype has gotten ahead of the underlying fundamentals.… more

RealtyTrac’s latest report for 2013 shows flips were up, but as many serious investors know, still represented only 4.6 percent of all U.S. single-family sales during the year. Their report… more

American Homes 4 Rent is joining  the Blackstone Group in providing bonds for investors backed by single-family rental homes, the New York Times and CNBC are reporting. This is part… more

The folks at RealtyTrac have come up with a fun list of the best places to invest in real estate if you would like to own investment property where you… more

American Housing Ventures has acquired 80 acres of agricultural land east of the Austin airport to build single family homes to rent in a growing national trend of build-to-rent ventures… more

RealtyTrac says jumbo loans are now cheaper than conventional loans. It may not make sense, until you look deeper at what is really going on. In this story, RealtyTrac outlines… more

The newly released report from the National Association of Home Builders says builder confidence in the market for  single-family homes has leveled out and is holding steady after a slight… more