Will Downpayment Assistance Help the U.S. Housing Market?

RISMEDIA, May 28, 2009-With home prices falling nearly 20% in the first quarter of 2009, Ann Ashburn, president of AmeriDream outlined four reasons why the U.S. economy and the next generation of homeowners would benefit from downpayment assistance funded in part by sellers (DPA). Congress is currently considering H.R.

Consumer Spending Index Continues Downward

RISMEDIA, June 10, 2009-The Deloitte Consumer Spending Index declined again in May, driven downward primarily by the housing market. The Index attempts to track consumer cash flow as an indicator of future consumer spending. “The year over year pace of decline in real consumer spending appears to have stabilized, however, recovery is ..

Collegiate Real Estate Services Group to Speak at Interface Student Housing Conference

Collegiate Real Estate Services Group’s President, Rafael Figueroa, and Senior Vice President of Management, Cole Heard, will speak at the Interface Student Housing Conference next week.

Builders Serving Mature Home Buyer Market See More Consumer Interest

RISMEDIA, June 8, 2009-Builders of single-family housing for the mature home buyer market reported an increase in traffic of prospective buyers during the first quarter of this year, according to the 55+ Housing Market Index (55+ HMI) released today by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). The component measuring …

Turnaround in real estate (Sunday Observer)

The Real Estate Development and Housing Construction sector which had taken a beating earlier this year has been able to register a marked improvement according to business circles.

Foreclosures May Top 25 Million

Foreclosures could top 25 million homes and other properties, according to a new report by Housing Predictor. [PR.com - October 13, 2009]

Mixed signs for Seacoast's residential real estate (Portsmouth Herald)

After more than two years of real estate industry turmoil with the housing and financial market crashes, record foreclosures and a deep economic recession, there is hope that the market is making a turn.

Lennar Announces Its Newest Community Tryon Place In Raleigh, North Carolina

Thirty Home Sites Now Officially Open For Sale

BIA/SO CA 50+ Housing Council Names KTGY's Manny Gonzalez, AIA, LEED AP, SAGE "Person of the Year"

BIA/SO CA 50+ Housing Council has named Manny Gonzalez, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, CAASH and Principal of KTGY Group 2009, SAGE “Person of the Year.”

‘Keeping It Real’ – How SentriLock Builds Momentum by Putting the User in Control

RISMEDIA, June 8, 2009-For SentriLock, there’s only one word that can adequately describe 2008: milestone. By so many different measures, momentum was the order of the year for SentriLock, founded just five years ago as a provider of next-generation electronic lockboxes to the real estate industry, and now majority-owned by the …