Homebuilder sentiment rose in September, ending three-month decline

Optimism among builders that new single-family homes will sell rose in September after declining for three months as lumber...

These hotel markets have entered a depression

Some U.S. hotel markets are in such bad shape that a recession would look good. Though leisure travel is...

National Real Estate Cheat Sheet: Home flipping loans hit 9-year high, rents drop in San Francisco … & more

  From TRD New York: Loans for home flipping hit nine-year high Did anyone say bubble? Eight years ago, many bankers would have been...

National Market Report: Bubble concerns for San Francisco office market, Andre Agassi’s real estate fund flips for a profit in Philadelphia … and more

America’s five most affordable cities

From the New York website: To find the most affordable cities in the U.S., Forbes analyzed data from America’s 100 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas and Metropolitan Divisions with populations of 600,000 or more. ......

National market report: Abandoned Vegas homes are turned into pot “grow houses”

From The Real Deal’s December magazine: Las Vegas houses emptied by foreclosure are being turned into marijuana “grow houses,” the New York Daily News...

National market report

From the New York February issue: The developer of HarborView, a waterfront resort community along Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, put up four undeveloped parcels of residential land for sale, according to Baltimore Business Journal. The...

National Market Report

From the New York January issue: Novelist Tom Clancy has purchased three additional penthouse condos at Baltimore’s Ritz-Carlton Residences, adding to the three he already owned, the Baltimore Sun reported last month. With the...

National market report

A potential sell-off of state-owned California real estate could be the state’s largest ever. From the New York April issue: Approximately 1.6 million square feet of state-owned real estate in San Francisco and Oakland...