Realogy CEO bullish in ‘Mad Money’ appearance
Realogy Holdings Corp. CEO Richard Smith says home prices in many markets have a long way to rise before they return to fair value, and that rising mortgage rates won’t stifle pent-up demand for...
Strangelove’s
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While surfing the Internet last week, I happened upon a gastropub called Strangelove’s. I often wonder how a restaurant gets christened and I immediately did some research.
The kitchen is in the capable hands of...
Scammers turning San Francisco listings into fake rentals
Tight inventories mean demand for rental homes and apartments in the San Francisco Bay Area is greater than supply — creating a ripe environment for scammers to use listings portals like Trulia, Zillow and...
Mortgage rates ease
Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 4.51 percent with an average point of 0.7 percent for the week ending Aug. 29, down from 4.58 percent last week but up from 3.59 percent a year...
Negative equity to crimp inventory for years to come
As home prices continued to increase rapidly, the number of underwater homeowners — borrowers who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth — fell at a fast clip in the second...
Wall Street REO investors reluctant to accept Section 8 vouchers
Some low-income Americans are finding it more difficult to rent homes because institutional investors, who have sucked up or generated a large share of rental inventory in some markets, are wary of taking on...
Influx of renters into neighborhoods grates on many homeowners
An influx of renters into communities once dominated by homeowners is changing the character of neighborhoods across the country, for better or worse, The New York Times reports. Source: The New York Times ...
Foreclosure inventory and completions continue to fall
Seeming to provide the latest indication that the foreclosure crisis continues to recede, both completed foreclosures and the overall number of homes in some stage of foreclosure dropped in July compared to June, according...
How the customer relationship has changed in the social era [VIDEO]
Clara Shih is the CEO and founder of social sales and marketing platform Hearsay Social. A pioneer in the social media industry, Shih developed the first social business application, Faceforce, gaining insight for a...
