Tag: housing
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April 10, 2009 04:15 PM EDT --
Realtors have an obvious interest in talking about how now is the right time to buy a house. Boom or bust markets, it's always a good time to buy!
Today, though, the St. Paul Area Association . . .
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March 30, 2009 09:16 PM EDT --
Major economic reports on Tuesday include the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index , which will tell us how much our home values dropped in January. The data helpfully breaks out losses by . . .
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April 28, 2009 01:16 PM EDT --
The housing price slide is slowing these days, but it's still a slide. That's the bottom line in today's data from widely watched S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices.
Twin Cities . . .
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April 09, 2009 11:10 AM EDT --
We've focused a lot of effort at MPR News reporting on the housing and mortgage problems in the Twin Cities and its suburbs. There's no doubt its been a problem for a lot of people. Even if you . . .
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March 24, 2009 06:28 PM EDT --
The Census Bureau releases data Wednesday on new home sales for February. January results showed sales of new one-family at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 309,000.
The market expects February's . . .
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March 25, 2009 02:17 PM EDT --
Two national measures of economic health showed up today looking better than expected.
Sales of new single-family houses in February 2009 came in at an estimated 337,000, according to the . . .
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May 26, 2009 04:24 PM EDT --
We've seen signs the past couple months the Twin Cities housing market is starting to drag itself back to its feet. But new data released today from the respected S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price . . .
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July 28, 2009 03:23 PM EDT --
Two new interesting chunks on Minnesota's housing market. Together they indicate things are improving -- slowly -- but that the problems are nowhere near an end.
Twin Cities home prices . . .
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August 03, 2009 10:15 AM EDT --
Margie Hoyt is losing a home that's been in her family for generations because of a loan she says should never have been made.
A source in our Public Insight Network who lost her job in . . .
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September 08, 2009 10:48 AM EDT --
We've been reporting a bunch about home prices in the Twin Cities . But David Frank reminds us that values across Minnesota have been hit as hard or harder than in the metro area.
Frank lives . . .
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May 05, 2009 04:45 PM EDT --
With job security, low debt and a bright economic outlook, Adam Leistico sees this as a great time to buy a house. The potential boost from the $8,000 federal home buyer credit makes it even more . . .
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June 22, 2009 05:21 PM EDT --
Not that anyone who bought a house from, say, 1998 to 2006 in the Twin Cities needs reminding, but a new Harvard University report informs us that inflation adjusted home values in our metro area . . .
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July 10, 2009 12:26 PM EDT --
Twin Cities home prices are still down double digits from last year but data today from Twin Cities Realtors suggest the level of decline is easing.
According to the St. Paul Association . . .
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July 21, 2009 11:15 AM EDT --
High end housing isn't selling in the Twin Cities . Is that just a hassle or is it creating a new kind of upscale urban blight?
In ordinary times, no one would cry over empty McMansions. But . . .
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October 19, 2009 01:31 PM EDT --
A cautionary tale about short-selling homes, from my MPR colleague Andrew Haeg :
For many unable to keep up with their mortgage payments, a short sale (in which you sell the house for less than what . . .
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March 31, 2009 11:28 AM EDT --
Data this morning show there's a long way to go for home values to come back.
The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices today showed "broad based declines in the prices of existing . . .
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August 11, 2009 05:59 PM EDT --
With real estate prices bottoming out, it's easy to think Minnesota's past the pain of the mortgage crisis. Data on the state's riskier home loans, however, shows some major worries straight ahead. . . .
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August 07, 2008 02:32 PM EDT --
Minnesota Public Radio News is querying its source network this week about whether the current market turmoil is making it harder to get home mortgages and home credit lines.
Even if you're . . .
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April 08, 2009 10:45 AM EDT --
The economy's been hit so hard over the past year and a half that it's hard to look at any statistic and find anything positive. But new home construction data today showed an unexpected jump . . .
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July 29, 2008 01:29 PM EDT --
With gas prices slipping a bit over the past week, it's tempting to think the economy might have bottomed out. But a couple of national reports out today suggest that remains wishful thinking.
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