Category: Real Estate

Up until recently, many young people weren’t able to purchase homes. And that’s for one reason: They simply couldn’t get a mortgage.

Technical analysis is the study of prices, and it can be applied to any price data. Right now, the picture for home prices is bullish.

A group of Americans that has just come of age is dominating the housing market and becoming the most significant force in our economy today.

Homeownership is near a record low, but things are clearly shifting. For the third year in a row, millennials represented the largest group of home buyers.

Last year, U.S. homeownership hit a 50-year low. But starting this year, you’re going to see homeownership begin to tick upward.

Every boom has its moment of hubris and overconfidence. Most often someone announces a “tallest building in the world.” Or in this case, a gigantic mall.

Comfortable living in a beautiful part of the world. Quiet and peaceful. Golf weather year-round. But that’s not the big reason why you should consider owning real estate in northern Argentina.

With the Federal Reserve set to announce its latest interest-rate decision tomorrow afternoon, we’re left staring down the possibility of a rate hike … and what that could mean for real estate.

Previously lumped in with financials, REITs will soon have their own sector on the S&P 500. And the added liquidity should open the floodgates for new cash to flow into real estate.

Ultralow interest rates, if kept around long enough, are going to result in distortions in capital markets … and you need look no further than the housing market for proof.

If you cashed out your real estate holdings in 2006, many — wrongly — would have called you crazy. One billionaire did just that, making his activity in today’s real estate market all the more ominous.

Leading indicators for the housing sector are raising warning flags, but you can use these forward-looking data to make one simple trade to take advantage of the situation.

Misguided federal policy has cast a chill over the U.S. economy, leaving the luxury real estate markets in New York and Miami in the lurch. But the impact could soon spread to other major markets, as Chinese buyers go silent.

After slogging through a recession and a poor jobs market, millennials are finally getting into the game. With 87 million new house hunters on the market, and all the accessories that go along with a new home, it’s no wonder Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is going big on housing.