October 12, 2011 (Chris Moore) Home values surprisingly inched upwards in August according to Zillow, despite all indicators to the contrary in July. However, the surprise price increase doesn’t change their assessment that home values won’t hit bottom until 2012. […]
October 5, 2011 (Chris Moore) Real estate appraisers from across the country are feeling the heat from real estate agents, home builders, home sellers and buyers as an ever increasing amount of home purchases are cancelled due to low appraisals. […]
September 27, 2011 (Jeff Alan) American’s confidence in the future value of their homes continues to sink as a record high 40 percent expect their homes to be worth less in a year from now according to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll. […]
August 22, 2011 (Jeff Alan) American’s confidence in seeing the value of their homes going up in the next year increased slightly last month with 13 percent of the homeowners surveyed expecting their homes to increase in value over the next 12 months according to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll. […]
July 20, 2011 (Jeff Alan) American’s confidence in seeing the value of their homes going up in the next year fell to the lowest level ever as just 11 percent now believe that their homes will increase in value over the next 12 months according to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll. […]
June 7, 2011 (Shirley Allen) Zillow.com reports that home values in April 2011 fell 0.77 percent compared to March and are 8.0 percent lower than they were in April 2010. That’s the lowest level of month-over-month depreciation since a 0.89 percent decrease recorded between November and December of 2010. […]
March 23, 2011 (Shirley Allen) The onslaught of bad economic news has apparently affected homeowners moods as pessimism about the recovery of home values in the short term has grown, as less than half of the nations homeowners now expect the value of their homes to go up in the next five years, according to [...]
March 8, 2011 (Chris Moore) They come from all walks of life. From the guy next door, to celebrities, to even large prominent companies, strategic default is a growing option for more and more borrowers to take. The exact amount of strategic foreclosures is unknown but a recent study by the Federal Reserve Board showed [...]
February 9, 2011 (Jeff Alan) Zillow Real Estate Research joined CoreLogic and Lenders Processing Services by releasing its December Home Value Index (HVI). According to the data collected from 132 metropolitan areas, monthly depreciation in home values increased 0.9 percent in December 2010 from the previous month. The median home value nationally was $175,215, down [...]
