FROM THE LA TIMES: Fannie Mae, the largest mortgage investor in the country, has a bulging portfolio of houses acquired through foreclosures nationwide. About 31,000 of these properties are listed on its HomePath resale marketing site. To move them quickly out of inventory, Fannie temporarily is offering qualified owner-occupant purchasers — but not investors —… read more →
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By MSNBC and in no particular order: Winners! Property investors Here’s one thing that almost everyone in the real-estate business seems to agree on: 2011 was the year of the investor. With a flood of bank-owned properties on the market and prices rolled back to 2003 levels, investors who had cash or access to credit… read more →
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Local Washington D.C. October housing numbers show that listing inventory has dropped a bit over 13%, median prices have gone down 1.4% and employment numbers are steady at 6%. Couple that with area rents are going up, climbing 3.7 percent for the past 12 averaging $1,708 a month in 2011. Local landlords have raised rents… read more →
Homesdatabase.com, the consumer site for MRIS now has a search feature in which you can search for properties based upon features that are important to you and your family using such criteria that you won’t see on normal search engines. “Typically, consumers are confined to searching by the home features such as room count and type, square… read more →
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Don’t see your ZIP below? Click here for to find your ZIP code for homes sales statistics in the region. The numbers are quite telling. If you want to be informed on a monthly basis and get these reports emailed to you for free, click here and in the message box… read more →