WASHINGTON, May 07, 2008
A flat pattern in home sales activity should continue for the next couple months before improving over the summer, according to the latest forecast by the National Association of Realtors®.
Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said the extent of an expected recovery hinges on better access to affordable loans. “Things are beginning to […]

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Commonly cited measures of U.S. home prices are overstating the degree to which the vast majority of Americans’ home values have declined in the last year, producers of two of the most widely tracked indexes acknowledged this week.

Top officials with the National Association of Realtors and Standard & Poor’s, which issues […]

Why buy a house now? You’ve been getting bad information. Here’s why.

The financial press is worried that they might have gone too far — paralyzing the nation into recession by piling on housing. So they’re finally beginning to question the indexes where they get their data, and whether the news is really as bad as […]

Yes you can, but it has to be done just right, and there are some limitations on how you use your property. Any property purchased by your IRA must be used for investment purposes only–so your replacement property cannot be a vacation home for you to use personally and it cannot become your personal residence […]