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Colorado boasts the nation’s fifth best housing market, according to a report released today. The report by 24/7 Wall Street said home prices in Colorado have risen by 7.3 percent in 12-month period ending in July, with a median home price of $240,00. “The Colorado housing market was not badly damaged when the housing bubble …

Posted by kpanchuk on 8/20/12 at 10:29am Some homeowners may have a strong preference for selling their own properties, but a new poll by HomeGain suggests having a real estate agents improves a person’s odds of offloading their home. HomeGain is an online marketing solutions provider for real estate agents. The firm recently conducted a …

New advice from the trenches on buying a home: Look early. Think fast. Hone your quick-draw skills with the checkbook. Metro Denver’s real estate market, not long ago a buyer’s domain, suddenly has shifted to a seller’s paradise, at least in some neighborhoods and price ranges. Realtors’ offices are rife with fresh anecdotes of sellers …

Written by Steve McLinden/Published January 12, 2012/Bankrate.com To buy or sell in 2012, what with Armageddon coming and all? Absent any ancient Mayan wisdom on real estate strategies, let’s just hope the real cataclysmic event in the real estate market already has passed, even if the rubble from the bubble remains. A stubborn overstock of households with …

Home prices fell sharply at the end of last year and the likelihood of a turnaround this year looks grim. Prices were down 4% in the fourth quarter from the same period in 2010, according to the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller national home price index released Tuesday. Prices are nearly 34% below their peak in …

Lenders are allowing more short sales by financially strapped homeowners and a few people are even getting cash to complete the sale. Short sales are when lenders allow borrowers to sell homes for less than their unpaid mortgages. They are an alternative to foreclosures. Short sales have been increasing for months, but the financial incentives …

WASHINGTON – Ben Bernanke says declines in home prices have forced many Americans to cut back sharply on spending and warns that the trend could continue to weigh on the economy for years. On Friday, during a speech to the National Association of Home Builders in Orlando, the Federal Reserve chairman drew the connection between …

WASHINGTON (AP) – The number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes fell in December after hitting the highest level in a year and a half the previous month. The national Association Of Realtors says its index of sales agreements fell 3.5% last month to a reading of 96.6. That’s down from November’s reading of …

Home buyers such as Bob and Janet Zych have fueled the U.S. housing market for decades. They have excellent credit with scores that top 800, life-long careers and investment portfolios that have set them up for a comfortable retirement, they say. But this year, “after faxing a ream of paper” about their finances, they got …

Foreclosure delays are likely to bring reprieves to 1 million financially troubled homeowners this year, but they threaten to further postpone the U.S. housing market’s recovery, a report out today shows. Foreclosure actions — including default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions — will be filed on about 2 million homes this year, 1 …