Maximizing your Real Estate Power in Today's market

Homebuilders' confidence in the housing market remained at record low levels, a trade group said Monday. The NAHB/Wells Fargo housing market index for August held at a seasonally adjusted reading of 16, matching July's reading. Economists surveyed by Thomson/IFR also expected the index to remain ...

Washington policy makers and housing industry insiders hope a new tax credit for first-time home buyers will get the moribund housing market moving again. But most analysts agree that the program is more of a band-aid than a cure-all for the battered real estate market. What's more, others are qu...

That catchy slogan, dreamed up by the Fallon Worldwide advertising agency, was pitched in 1999 to executives at Citicorp who were looking for a way to lure Americans to financial products like home equity loans. But some in the room did not like it. They worried the phrase would encourage people ...

Real estate prices continued to post steep year-over-year declines during the three months ended June 30, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Nationwide, the median existing single family home price plunged 7.6% to $206,500 in the second quarter, down from $...

Number 10 I can’t make my house payments, but I do have an ability to pay back all or part of the negative equity. Also, I want to preserve my credit score…is a short sale right for me? Probably, not. In cases where the seller can pay back all or part of the negative equity (usually to the 2nd li...

The foreclosure juggernaut lurched forward in July as banks took back 77,295 homes - up 8% in a month and 183% in a year, a report issued Thursday shows. Total foreclosure filings - delinquency notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions - were up 8% from June and 55% year-over-year, acc...

The great American sell-off continues. For sale this time: foreclosed homes throughout the United States with depreciating values. These pieces of real estate are tempting foreign big-money sovereign wealth funds to purchase them at an incredible value. Nothing can be truly considered sacred or A...

More homeowners than ever are selling at a loss, propelling the real estate market deeper into crisis. In the 12 months that ended June 30, nearly 25% of all homes sold nationwide fetched less than sellers originally paid, according to real estate Web site Zillow.com. While the nation's double-di...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com ) -- Prime mortgages are starting to default at disturbingly high rates - a development that threatens to slow any potential housing recovery. The delinquency rate for prime mortgages worth less than $417,000 was 2.44% in May, compared with 1.38% a year earlier, according t...

Zillow just reported that according to new data, that nearly one-third of all US homeowners who bought in the past 5-years are in a negative equity position meaning they owe more than their home is worth. However, this is a best-case scenario, as it is widely thought the Zillow valuation estimate...