Lew Sichelman

Ivan Choi has been voted incoming chair-elect of the Asian American Real Estate Association of America.

Home improvement spending could be in double-digit growth mode by as early as next year’s first quarter, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.

At a "homeownership rally" in Tampa, the NAHB, with several co-sponsors, collected signatures on petitions calling for politicians to solve the foreclosure crisis, guarantee creditworthy homebuyers and small business the opportunity to obtain loans and protect the mortgage interest deduction.

Under a big white tent in Joe Chillura Courthouse Square, the NAHB, with several co-sponsors, collected signatures on petitions calling for politicians to solve the foreclosure crisis, guarantee credit-worthy home buyers and small business the opportunity to obtain loans, and protect the mortgage interest deduction.

While the scandal surrounding the rigging of the London Interbank Offered Rate is expected to widen, the index is “so ingrained in the financial system” that there’s “little threat to its status as a global interest rate benchmark.

While other major developments have gone to seed during the housing recession, Stapleton, Colo., has flourished as the new town is on track to record its third best sales year ever in 2012.

After shunning homebuilders for the last five years, investment capital is starting to find its way back into the new home market.

Pity the poor loss mitigation staffs at the mortgage servicers everywhere—they’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

The rental sector’s run at the top of the housing ladder has more staying power than most observers believe.

That the American dream of homeownership lives on despite the worst housing recession in eight decades is a popular notion, backed by survey after survey of consumers who still believe that ownership is the path to economic salvation.

American households took a big hit in their home equity in the five-year span between 2005 and 2010. But otherwise, according to new data from the Census Bureau, they saw an 8% jump in their net worth.

It’s one thing when special interests declare “the end” of the housing debacle, but it’s another when such an august organization as the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University calls the bottom.

So folks who recall that the Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach county market was one of the hardest hit during the housing crash might question the sanity of starting a total of 6,300 more apartments so soon after the debacle.

New home sales fell to a record low last year, but that didn’t stop the nation’s largest building companies from garnering their largest market share ever.

A check by Housing Intelligence of median prices of all homes sold in January in markets with at least 2,000 closings finds that the top five were all in Florida.

Just days after predicting that this year’s mortgage originations would fall to their lowest level in volume since 2007, the Mortgage Bankers Association is changing its tune—singing at a higher note.

Mortgage originations will fall to their lowest level in five years in 2012, according to the latest forecast by the Mortgage Bankers Association.

A panel of diversified lenders at the Urban Land Institute's spring meeting in Charlotte described a healthy mortgage market in which only the long shots are having trouble finding funding these days.

Truckloads of Realtors – more than 10,000 of them, according to their leader – will swarm Capitol Hill Thursday with this familiar message for lawmakers: Housing is key to the economic recovery.

Under the program, which was tested in the Sunshine State last year, B of A will offer to pay delinquent mortgage customers up to $30,000 to help with relocation expenses after completing a qualified short sale.