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Household wealth in the U.S. climbed in the fourth quarter, propelled by a gain in home prices that is helping repair family finances.
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By Alex Kowalski |
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The Corvias Group has opened a new headquarters in Cary, N.C., for its student housing division Corvias Campus Living, the company announced Tuesday.
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By PBN Staff
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Bristol County, Mass., foreclosure starts dropped 17.4 percent in January while finished foreclosures plummeted 86.7 percent compared with the first month of 2012, The Warren Group said Monday.
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By PBN Staff
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Single-family home prices in the Providence-Fall River-New Bedford metro area rose 0.6 percent from January 2012 to January 2013, according to CoreLogic’s Home Price Index.
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By PBN Staff
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In the contentious debate over whether to reduce or eliminate the home-mortgage interest tax deduction – or leave it alone – one fact has been virtually unchallenged: The popular write-off used by millions of American owners costs the government massive amounts of revenue, somewhere in the range of $100 billion a year.
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3/4/13
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Condominium sales in the Ocean State soared 60 percent in January, the Rhode Island Association of Realtors said Friday.
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By PBN Staff
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The foreclosure inventory in Rhode Island was unchanged from January 2012 to January 2013 at 3 percent, CoreLogic reported Thursday. This means that 3 percent of all homes with a mortgage in Rhode Island were in one aspect of the foreclosure process.
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By PBN Staff
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Contracts to purchase previously owned U.S. homes climbed more than forecast in January, a sign the industry will keep strengthening this year.
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By Shobhana Chandra |
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Single-family home sales and the median price of those sales rose 9 percent in Bristol County, Mass. in January compared with the same month in 2012, The Warren Group said Tuesday.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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If you want to buy a house with minimal cash by using an FHA-insured mortgage, here’s some sobering news: Thanks to an ongoing series of fee increases and underwriting tweaks – the most recent of which were announced Jan. 31 – FHA is getting steadily more expensive, and may not work for you.
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2/25/13
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