According to Microsoft, the future of consumer behavior is all about online, and that has brought with it an opportunity for advertisers to understand. The future of consumer behavior lies online – and that’s brought with it an opportunity for advertisers to understand their audiences better than ever, says one of Microsoft’s top online consumer …
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Top rental markets about to “explode”
Numerous recent reports claim renting is on the rise, but John Burns Real Estate Consulting believes demand is top markets is about to “explode,” with some cities seeing a 25% growth over the next three years. According to John Burns, there are about 3.4 million units of pent up demand for rental housing bolstered by …
Case-Shiller home-price index hits new low
Is now the time to buy? An index of home prices in the nation’s largest American cities plumbed new depths in March, pushing past a low set during the worst of the Great Recession. The ominous new drop for the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index of 20 cities, a key measure that is closely watched by …
4 Signals It Might be Time to Buy (vs. Rent) Your Home
To rent or to buy: what used to be a given – that you would buy a home as soon as you could afford to – has become an agonizing conundrum for many a would-be homebuyer, in the face of the housing market’s big bust and super-slow recovery. Low prices seem to create a wide-open …
Home Prices Edge Closer to 2009 Lows According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices
New York, April 26, 2011 – Data through February 2011, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show prices for the 10- and 20-city composites are lower than a year ago but still slightly above their April 2009 bottom. The 10- City Composite fell …
Real Estate Outlook: Foreclosures Remain Focal Point
Foreclosures are still big news in real estate across the country. Most homeowners are looking forward to a day when foreclosures make up a much smaller share of the market. For now, however, 1 in 119 homes are in foreclosure. One in every 577 housing units received a foreclosure filing in the month of February. …
Freddie Mac: U.S. home prices drop 4.3% in fourth quarter
February 28, 2011 U.S. home prices fell 4.3% on a year-over-year basis in the fourth quarter as foreclosures and slowing sales buoyed inventory levels, Freddie Mac said Monday in its Conventional Mortgage Home Price Index. “Foreclosed-property and short sales remain a big part of the market. However, new foreclosures will begin to gradually slow,” said …
