New Home Sales in U.S. Slightly Dip in February, Yet Up 11% Over Last Year

David Crowe According to new data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), sales of new single-family houses in February 2012 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 313,000. This is 1.6 percent (±23.9%) below the revised
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Hidden Hills Estate Home Once Leased by Britney Spears Back on Market

Hidden Hills Estate Britney Spears once rented (Los Angeles, CA) — The Hidden Hills estate that pop icon Britney Spears had been leasing for $ 25,000 a month is back on the market. Ronald N. Tutor, chief executive of the construction firm Tutor Perini, is listing the equestrian-
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U.S. Pending Home Sales Index Upticks 2% in January

Lawrence Yun According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), pending home sales in the U.S. are on an upward trend, which has been uneven but meaningful since reaching a cyclical low last April, and are well above a year ago. NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-lo
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Actor Ryan Reynolds Lists Home He Bought with Scarlett Johansson

(LOS ANGELES, CA) — Actor Ryan Reynolds has listed at $ 3.65 million the Los Feliz hills house he bought with his then-wife, actress Scarlett Johansson, in 2010. Built in 1969, the Buff & Hensman-designed Wong House has walls of glass that capture views of downtown Los Angel
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Fed Chairman Bernanke Tells U.S. Home Builders Market in Transition, REO-to-Rental Programs Not a ‘Silver Bullet’

Ben S. Bernanke, Fed Chairman Today Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a thought-provoking speech on the state of the U.S. housing market to the nation’s top home builders gather at the National Association of Home Builder’s (NAHB) annual International Home Builder Show in Orl
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Property Management For Your Vacation Home

If you are one of the lucky people who own a vacation home then you are most likely aware of the stress that comes with managing multiple investments. When having to worry about these behind the scenes details the desire to own vacation property can become much less desirable. When hi
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Orlando Home Prices Jump 12% in December, End 2011 in the Black

Orlando, FL (ORLANDO, FL) — According to the Orlando Regional Realtor Association (ORRA), Orlando’s median home price spiked in December and was enough to nudge the 2011 cumulative year-end median 1.29 percent above that of 2010, and end the year in the black. The cumulati
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Falling Home Prices Making California a Move-To State Again

Texas may be holding on to the Magnet State title, but the Allied Van Lines’ 44th Annual Magnet States Report shows California regaining a strong a position on the inbound list after more than a decade on the outbound. For the seventh year in a row, Texas eclipsed every other st
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U.S. Home Prices Slightly Dip in 3Q, Back to 2003 Levels

According to the latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today, home prices nationally did not register a significant change in the third quarter of 2011, with the U.S. National Home Price Index up by only 0.1% from its second quarter level. The national index posted an
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Orlando Single Family Home Sales Spike 18% in October, Biggest Increase in 2011

Orlando, FL (ORLANDO, FL) — According to the Orlando Regional Realtor Association (ORRA), sales of existing single-family homes in October 2011 jumped 18% over last October’s home sales pace, marking the year’s greatest month-over-month increase in sales of this home
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