Home mortgage applications fall to 15-year low


D-FW home foreclosure filings fall 19% – Dallas Morning News

North Texas home foreclosures are continuing to retreat from the record highs set last year. Foreclosure filings for September are down 19 percent from a year ago, the seventh month in a row that foreclosure postings in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have …


D-FW home foreclosures filings fall 19 percent

Home foreclosure postings in North Texas are down in 2011 for the first time in 11 years.


House insurance increases — even as rebuilding costs fall – Independent

HOMEOWNERS are paying 6pc more to insure their homes since the start of the year — even though the cost of rebuilding has dropped by the same amount. A survey of the average price of combined residential building and contents insurance between January and …


July home sales in Southern California fall 4.5% from a year earlier

The number of transactions is the lowest for a July in four years. Also, the median price drops 4% from July 2010 to $283,000. Home sales in Southern California fell to the lowest level for a July in four years as some key economic indicators turned downbeat and congressional budget wrangling took the country to [...]


June home prices rise 0.7% from May but fall 6.8% from June 2010

U.S. home prices rose 0.7% in June from May, according to a home price index released Wednesday, although some of that increase is probably the result of seasonal variations.


Foreclosures fall, as do home prices

Foreclosures are down, but home-sales prices remain flat, depressed by institutional distress sales, a new report says. Fewer housing starts also reflect the continuing economic doldrums, according to the Mesa County Real Estate Report by Advanced Title Co.


Seattle’s office vacancy rate expected to fall

Despite mixed reports from the second quarter, commercial real-estate agents agree the office vacancy rate in Seattle is likely to fall during the rest of 2011.


Home foreclosure filings fall for 6th straight month – Dallas Morning News

North Texas home foreclosure postings are down for the sixth consecutive month. Just over 4,000 Dallas-Fort Worth area homes are set for sale by lenders in next month’s foreclosure auctions. That’s a 14 percent decline in filings from a year ago …


Area home foreclosures fall

Foreclosures continued to dip markedly in the Attleboro area and throughout Massachusetts in May, but real estate experts say that mostly reflects a change in rules governing foreclosures, rather than a significant improvement in the real estate market or homeowner finances.