The nation’s 70-million strong Generation-Y demographic is more likely than other generations to spend money on hobbies, electronics and video games, but they also may be the homebuyers strapped sellers are looking for. Western Union released a study Wednesday showing that 47% of Gen-Y plan to buy a home within the next five years or less, compared to 29% of the overall population. At the same time, this generation is dealing with higher student debt levels, and they have more […]

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Seventy-five percent of Americans still aspire to own a home and consider home ownership a major life goal, according to a new poll of non-home owners aged 22 to 50 conducted by Integra Realty Resources, an independent real estate valuation firm. Despite a housing crisis that saw housing prices drop in many markets, Americans’ enthusiasm for home ownership hasn’t lessened, according to the study. The survey found that non-home owners under the age of 30 are even more positive about […]

High unemployment persists and the European debt crisis continues to threaten the economic recovery, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told the Congressional Joint Economic Committee yesterday. The real estate market also continues to serve as “another drag” on recovery, he noted. But the Fed chairman likely will not push more stimulus programs when the Fed’s policy-making committee meets June 19 and 20, according to media reports. Instead, Bernanke pushed Congress to do more to help stimulate the economy. For the […]

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Recent price increases with bank-owned homes are helping to provide an overall boost to the housing market, a recent report from Clear Capital says. Prices of REOs nationally rose 8.1 percent over year-ago levels on a median price-per-square-foot basis, according to Clear Capital’s May housing data. “Strength in the REO-only price trends as well as some early indications of price gains spreading from low-tier sectors to the mid- and higher-priced homes is helping confirm that the country continues to make […]

U.S. attorneys are increasing their scrutiny of FHA lenders, having recouped $1 billion in losses for the agency from Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, and Flagstar, and issued subpoenas for information from others. The probes indicate that Washington does not want taxpayers to cover FHA losses and could prompt lenders to use more caution when making FHA-insured loans.   The author of this article is: realtormag.realtor.org  See the original post at: http://realtormag.realtor.org/daily-news/2012/06/07/probe-widens-mortgage-lenders At GayRealEstate.com, we keep you updated with all […]

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A new article at CNBC.com suggests that the real estate market is splitting in two, with the high-end segment soaring and the rest of the market continuing to struggle as it inches toward recovery mode. “It’s become a tale of two markets,” Michael Simonsen, CEO of Altos Research, told CNBC.com. “At the high end, well-financed people have taken advantage of cheap money. And demand is up, inventory is down, and prices are responding.” The article says that wealthy buyers tend […]

Some housing experts say a “mega-boom in home ownership” is brewing as Hispanic Americans look to join in home ownership. Indeed, Movoto, a real estate brokerage in San Mateo, Calif., predicts Hispanics will make up half of new home buyers nationwide by 2020. The growth in that time frame is expected to be big, considering that currently 75 percent of first-time home buyers are white and only 11 percent are Hispanic. But observers say that with Hispanics’ birth rates and […]