An economics presentation at Humboldt State University. Special guest lecturer Dr. Christopher Thornberg of Beacon Economics discusses the current housing bubble and its effects on California.

RISMEDIA, June 11, 2009-The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending June 5, 2009. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, was 611.0, a decrease of 7.2% on a seasonally adjusted basis from 658.7 one week earlier. ..

China Real Estate Information, known as CRIC, was created by the merger of E-House’s real-estate information business and Sina Corp. ’s online real estate unit.

The real estate market and particularly home selling prices have been all over the news in the past week as three major organizations released their latest reports on the market.

RISMEDIA, June 4, 2009-In your marketplace, what’s your biggest challenge? For Ari Harkov, vice president and associate broker of Halstead Property, LLC, it’s bringing buyers and sellers together and reaching a meeting of the minds.

As homeowners and homebuyers in Southern California, including those in the local markets, continue to cope with struggling residential sales, Acorn managing editor John Loesing begins a multipart questionandanswer series with local real estate leaders about the future of the market and possible signs that the worst might be behind us.

RISMEDIA, June 4, 2009-Real estate investors and vacation home buyers represented 35-40% of all residential property purchases in the years before the market downturn. Yet, many of these same investors are now experiencing serious negative equity and cash flow issues, and they are wondering if and when they will start seeing …

RISMEDIA, May 29, 2009-Keeping in touch with your agents is a crucial element in today’s real estate market and real estate professionals across the country are getting back to basics in order to keep their agents informed as to the market conditions. Here, Denton See, president, Carol Jones, Realtors in …

Maureen Aylward of Burr Ridge and a real estate agent with the Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Hinsdale office has been named one of the office’s top sales producer for April. Branch manager Nina Fotopoulos said Aylward has participated in every real estate sale in the last 15 months.

Considering the state of the economy and the housing market, the spec home market has come to a screeching halt over the past year or so. Most builders have not been in a position, financially, to start a spec home – and the spec homes that remain have been picked over. As the market heats back up, Sterling Custom Homes feels that there will be a shortage of fresh, new inventory available for buyers wanting a [PR.com - October 04, 2009]