Housing Starts Surge, Mortgage Rates Plummet, New Home Permits on the Rise…

Could this be the beginning of the end? It’s too early to start touting a recovery at this point, but it’s nice to see some good news for a change!
We started off the week with the news about housing starts. According to an article on CNN.com’s Money web site, while economists were expecting a further [...]

All Real Estate Really is Local

So every day you hear the doom and gloom on the state of the Real Estate economy. Well folks, when you look at the National picture, it certainly is alarming. According to the 4th quarter Housing Price Indexproduced by the good folks at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight for the 4th quarter of 08, housing prices [...]