Tag: Trulia
The Extra Mile
LOOKING BEYOND THE HORIZON TO DELIVER: VALUE CHALLENGES in life, in career, in relationships and in every other walk of life can be looked at...
Housing’s Misleading Health Indicator
The National Association of Realtors will release its monthly U.S. existing home sales report tomorrow. Among other things, the report includes what's known as...
Will The Zillow-Trulia Merger Bring Much Needed Innovation To A Stale...
Amazon.com began life with the ambition to be “the world’s largest bookstore”. Back in 1996, few book publishers had any idea that their “proven”...
Is the Private Mortgage-Bond Market Dead or Dormant?
It’s been nearly seven years since the market for so-called private-label mortgage bonds, or those that aren’t backed by government-related entities, dried up. For...
Zillow-Trulia Merger: Will It Change How We Buy and Sell Real...
Despite the multitude of online real estate websites, buying a home today remains stubbornly anachronistic, with dual real estate agents, proliferating fees, and reams...
Homebuying Gets a Housecleaning
There were two significant events related to the housing market yesterday. The first was Zillow Inc., the biggest U.S. real-estate website, saying it was interested...
10 Things Millennials Won’t Spend Money On
By 2017, millennials will have more buying power than any other generation. But so far, they're not spending like their parents did. Millennials are often...
The Housing Recovery Is Over
If you’re waiting to sell your house because you think prices will continue to rise, don’t. The housing recovery that began in 2012 came on...
The Recession’s Lost Generation of Homeowners Isn’t Millennials
Though the published homeownership rate for young adults is still falling, true homeownership among young adults started rising in 2013. Adjusted for longer-term demographic...
Where the Empty Houses Are
The 2013 third quarter Census Homeownership and Vacancy survey shows that the vacancy rate is still above its pre-bubble level and remains unchanged from...
