And you thought Zillow was the only syndication site making high-level acquisitions? Advantage – Move, Inc.? In a clear response to Zillow’s $3.5 billion acquisition of Trulia, Move, Inc., the company that manages NAR’s realtor.com website, has acquired the

$1 million is a hefty chunk of change, but new data shows that it goes much farther in some metro areas than in others. How much is $1 million, in the grand scheme of things? According to some very interesting

Home prices continue rising, CoreLogic finds, but the geographic drivers of the increases may be shifting. Home prices continued to show signs of improvement in July, according to the latest Home Price Index report from CoreLogic. Nationwide, home prices, including

Autumn has traditionally been a slow selling season, but Redfin analysis suggests that may not be the case in 2014. It’s a seasonal trend as tried and true as any in American business – the strong summer homebuying season

Residential construction was basically flat in July, though it remains ahead of 2013’s pace. Residential construction spending through July was at a seasonally adjust annual rate of $358.1 billion, a 0.7 percent increase from June, according to the latest

Negative equity persists in today’s housing market, but its impacts are not equally felt in every price point. #471456425 / gettyimages.com Earlier this week, we reported on new findings by Zillow that a whopping 42.6 percent of Generation X

Construction spending has been up and down in Chicagoland in 2014, but it bounced back in a major way in July. Residential construction spending in the Boston area totaled $439 million in July 2014, down 1 percent from last year, according

Pending home sales rose for the fourth time in five months, according to the National Association of Realtors. Pending home sales rebounded in July, rising 3.3 percent from June according to the latest data from the National Association of

$1 million sure goes much farther in our local housing market! In our housing market, as well as scores of others across the U.S., $1 million is a hefty sum of money, one that awards potential homebuyers a myriad

Though the U.S. has cleared through millions of underwater mortgages, a shocking number of Gen X mortgage holders are still underwater. #115181433 / gettyimages.com Seventeen percent of the nation’s homeowners – aka 8.7 million – are still underwater on

Housing affordability has been one of the key marketing tools in an agent’s arsenal, but that could be changing soon. #200336957-001 / gettyimages.com During housing’s down years, agents had a couple of marvelous talking points to use with potential homebuyers

Homeownership rates in young adults have been dwindling, and Fannie Mae takes a stab at explaining why. #151910629 / gettyimages.com Homeownership is on the decline. And though it is a trickling decline and might, at some point in the future,

New home sales were down monthly and up yearly, but the story is so much deeper than that. #160457704 / gettyimages.com By now you’ve surely seen the headlines – though new home sales in July were up 12.3 percent

Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes rose two points to 55 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) for August. This third consecutive monthly gain brings the index to its

July’s existing-home sales data looked pretty positive, but scratching beneath the surface reveals a different perspective. #76038116 / gettyimages.com It all seems so nice – in July, existing-home sales rose 2.4 percent from June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate

Despite numbers that would imply the contrary, homebuilder confidence continued to increase this month. #82355278 / gettyimages.com Builders were a mighty confident bunch this month, with the NAHB’s Housing Market Index, the industry’s leading measure of homebuilder confidence, rising