Tag Archives: D/FW Housing
Real Estate 2010 – - Will It Be Better?
Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by toniarney.
Real Estate 2010 — Will It Be Better? By Peter G. Miller There’s little doubt that 2009 was a brutal year for many in real estate while for others it was a buying opportunity. Foreclosure filings reported by RealtyTrac topped 300,000 per month for much of the year while the National Association of Realtors says that [...]
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Foreclosures and Options
Posted on 15. Feb, 2010 by toniarney.
Home foreclosure filings jumped in the Dallas-Fort Worth area again after falling last month, according to Addison-based Foreclosure Listing Service Inc. Foreclosure postings were up 34 percent in Collin and Denton counties and 23 percent in Dallas County. The foreclosure postings were up 22 percent from the same period a year ago, but down 4 percent [...]
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The Latest on Mortgage Rates
Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by toniarney.
Mortgage Rates: February 11, 2010 Rate: 5.15 percent (30-year fixed) Average Points: 0.44 Mortgage rates did not budge this week. The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage stood at 5.15 percent for the second straight week, and third week in the past four. A basis point is one-hundredth of a percentage point. Meanwhile, this week’s average 15-year [...]
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D/FW Foreclosures
Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by toniarney.
DALLAS (Dallas Morning News) – Dallas may be faring well in this economic downturn compared with other major metros in the country, but the foreclosure crisis has not passed it by. First American CoreLogic estimates that about 0.9 percent of Dallas-area homes with mortgages were in foreclosure in December. That’s up from 0.8 percent in December 2007. [...]
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Foreclosures rise for D/FW
Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by toniarney.
Dallas-Fort Worth will start the new year with a surge in home foreclosure postings. Almost 5,900 homes are scheduled for foreclosure next month in the four-county area, according to Foreclosure Listing Service (FLS). That’s a 45 percent jump in foreclosure filings from January 2009. But as in previous months, a big part of the current [...]
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Housing Market Fallout
Posted on 17. Jan, 2010 by toniarney.
After the Fallout By Mark G. Dotzour A year has gone by since the real estate mortgage markets experienced the first day of “nuclear winter.” For three or four years prior to July 2007, the credit markets for real estate lending were on fire. The thinking among the “smart money” on Wall Street was [...]
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D/FW Foreclosures Surge
Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 by toniarney.
Dallas-Fort Worth will start the new year with a surge in home foreclosure postings. Almost 5,900 homes are scheduled for foreclosure next month in the four-county area, according to Foreclosure Listing Service (FLS). That’s a 45 percent jump in foreclosure filings from January 2009. But as in previous months, a big part of the current [...]
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Housing Market in D/FW Expected to Rebound
Posted on 29. Dec, 2009 by toniarney.
After slogging through two years of decline, the North Texas housing market is headed for a rebound in 2010. The only question, analysts say, is how strong the bounce-back will be. And that depends on the economy, of course. “Any sustained turnaround in sales and construction activity will definitely depend on the economy and job [...]
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Home Sales Up in October!
Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by toniarney.
(DFW) - North Texas preowned home sales surged in October — up 11 percent from a year ago. It was the first double-digit gain in more than a year. Real estate agents sold more than 6,300 single-family homes last month through the Multiple Listing Service, according to numbers released by the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M [...]
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First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Extended!
Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by toniarney.
WASHINGTON (Bloomberg News, Associated Press) – The Senate and the House have approved extending the first-time homebuyer tax credit, settling on an April 30 close date and expanding it to benefit more homebuyers. The plan, which had not been signed by President Obama as of this morning, would allow couples earning up to $225,000 a [...]
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