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Here's a look back at 2012's major developments in residential real estate -- along with insight on what lies ahead for the housing market in 2013. %Gallery-173886% Show comments
Mid-year: A total of 801,359 properties received foreclosure notices during the first half of the year, a 19 percent decrease over the previous six months, and 23 percent down from the same period in 2012. 0.61 percent of all households were in some stage of foreclosure during the first half of 2013.
House in Salinas, California under foreclosure, following the bursting of the U.S. real estate bubble. The 30-year mortgage rates increased by more than a half a percentage point to 6.74 percent during May–June 2007, [78] affecting borrowers with the best credit just as a crackdown in subprime lending standards limits the pool of qualified ...
By Andrea V. Brambila While national home prices and sales may not recover to their historical levels until 2013 at the earliest, some local housing markets always outperform others in any given year.
In many regions a real estate bubble, it was the impetus for the subprime mortgage crisis. Housing prices peaked in early 2006, started to decline in 2006 and 2007, and reached new lows in 2011. [3] On December 30, 2008, the Case–Shiller home price index reported the largest price drop in its history. [4]
In July, the housing market had a 4.0-month supply of housing inventory, a 19.8 percent improvement over last year but still below the 5 to 6 months needed for a healthy, balanced market — one ...
A real estate trend is any consistent pattern or change in the general direction of the real estate industry which, over the course of time, causes a statistically noticeable change. This phenomenon can be a result of the economy, a change in mortgage rates, consumer speculations, or other fundamental and non-fundamental reasons.
As the international economy lags, mainstream property prices are flagging around the world, according to Knight Frank's latest global house price index. The index rose just 1 percent year-over ...