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07/20/2006 Rental market rebounds in Western markets
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Occupancy rates have increased since last year in all but one of the 29 major metropolitan areas studied by RealFacts, a research company that tracks the multifamily housing industry.
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07/20/2006 Smarter Agent, Sprint launch wireless real estate application
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Real estate technology company Smarter Agent and Sprint have teamed up to launch a new location-based wireless phone application called Recently Sold Homes, the companies announced today.
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07/20/2006 Home builder D.R. Horton's earnings sink
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Home builder D.R. Horton Inc. today announced net income of $292.8 million, which is 21.2 percent lower than third-quarter 2005 net income of $371.7 million.
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07/20/2006 Economy ticks higher in June
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The U.S. leading index, a key barometer of economic conditions, increased 0.1 percent in June, the Conference Board reported today, and now stands at 138.1.
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07/20/2006 Overnight real estate rates flat
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Long-term mortgage interest rates were mostly unchanged Wednesday, and the benchmark 10-year Treasury bond yield dropped to 5.05 percent.
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07/20/2006 Yurts: Affordable housing with an indigenous twist
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For the nomadic people of Mongolia, home is where the herd is.
And home is typically a traditional dwelling called a ger. The Mongolian gers, also known as yurts (derived from the Turkic word meaning "dwelling place"),
are wood-framed tentlike structures wrapped in wool felt that have housed nomads
for millennia.
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07/20/2006 Infomercial producer gets piece of online real estate
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Direct marketing giant Guthy-Renker has acquired a stake in online real estate lead generation service RealtyTracker, the companies announced today.
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07/20/2006 Real estate publisher rolls out national video program
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Homes & Land Magazine, a national real estate publication company, is
offering streaming
video tours of homes for sale in cities across the United States, the
company said Wednesday. The home tour videos will appear on HomesAndLand.com and other
Web sites.
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07/19/2006 Fannie Mae forecasts 10% drop in 2006 home sales
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The number of homes changing hands in 2006 could decline by up to 10 percent next year, and mortgage originations could fall by 18 percent to $2.41 trillion in 2006, the top economists at Fannie Mae project.
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07/19/2006 Bernanke raises hopes of pause in interest-rate hikes
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told the Senate Banking Committee today that a slowdown in the economy that would keep inflation in check seems to be underway, raising hopes on Wall Street that the Fed will keep short-term interest rates at 5.25 percent.
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