Category: Real Estate

As hurricanes approached, gasoline demand increased as supply shrank, and prices rose. But sometimes price gouging is less obvious, as in the case of new homes.

The housing sector slaughtered traders when the bubble popped, leaving many wary of a rebound, but don’t count this group out just yet.

Losses hurt. This is true emotionally, financially and mathematically. And some homeowners are learning a painful math lesson even as real estate recovers.

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.