Builders See Signs of Stabilization
By JAMES R. HAGERTY and JOHN SPENCE, www.onlinewsj.com
Home builders reported encouraging signs of stabilization in the housing market, but they cautioned that foreclosures and rising interest rates cloud the outlook. READ MORE
Mortgage Rates Surge, Sap Hopes
By NICK TIMIRAOS and RUTH SIMON, www.onlinewsj.com
Home-mortgage rates have surged to their highest level in more than three months, threatening prospects for quick rebounds in the housing market and consumer spending. READ MORE
Housing-Rescue Plan Adds ‘Short Sales’
By RUTH SIMON, www.onlinewsj.com
The Obama administration on Thursday laid out additions to its housing-rescue plan that are designed in part to make it easier for financially troubled homeowners to sell houses that are worth less than their mortgages. READ MORE
Toll Brothers Sees Hope Even as Orders Fall
By MICHAEL CORKERY, www.onlinewsj.com
Toll Brothers Inc. on Wednesday reported higher orders than many analysts expected in its fiscal second quarter and offered a glimmer of hope that the luxury-home market is starting to thaw. READ MORE
Affluent Homeowners: Underwater and Sinking Fast
By Nick Timiraos, www.blogs.wsj.com
The tide is rising for high-end borrowers. Some traditionally stable housing markets are facing new stress as rising numbers of affluent homeowners find that they have little to no equity in their homes. READ MORE
Concerns About a False Bottom in Housing
By Nick Timiraos, www.blogswsj.com
Have foreclosure moratoria—which artificially depressed foreclosures in the fourth quarter of 2008—provided a false sense of security that the worst of the foreclosure tidal wave has passed? READ MORE
Is Your Home A Good Investment?
www.onlinewsj.com, MAY 27, 2009
There’s the usual talk about what the latest Case-Shiller house price data mean for the next short term move in the real estate market. Has housing bottomed? If not, has the rate of decline slowed? And when will we see an upturn? READ MORE
Desperate Home Builders Woo Renters
By DAWN WOTAPKA, The Wall Street Journal
To turn renters into homeowners, desperate home builders are being creative. They’re gathering addresses to contact tenants, participating in rent-with-equity programs and wooing them with pet adopt-a-thons. READ MORE
April Drop in Listings for Homes
By JAMES R. HAGERTY, www.onlinewsj.com
The number of homes listed for sale in many U.S. cities continued to fall in April in what some analysts see as a sign that the market may be nearing a bottom. But the picture is clouded by uncertainty over how many foreclosed properties will hit the market. READ MORE
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