Subsidizing renters with gobs of greenbacks if they buy a house turns out to be a pretty popular program.Thanks to the tax credit for first-time home buyers, as well as cheaper home prices and lower

If a real-estate listing describes a house as “lovingly maintained,” it means: a) Kindly overlook the worn shag carpeting b) The appliances are 30 years out of date c) Most of the walls a

Home sales fell last month, and so be it. Every home that doesn’t get sold is another bailout I don’t have to finance.Congress included an $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers as

If we've learned anything from the bursting of the great real estate bubble, it's this: Nothing can cure an American of the desire to own a home, especially if it looks like a bargain. As Minyanville

It seems that with each passing month, the data gods deliver more and more evidence that the woe begotten US housing market may finally be emerging from its years-long doldrums.Existing home sales: U

Editor's Note: This article was written by James Quinn, a senior director of strategic planning for a major university. James has held high-level financial positions with a retailer

To investors, some of the homebuilding stocks now look like the fantasy McMansions of their dreams.In the past six months, KB Home (KBH) went up more than 70%; D.R. Horton (DHI) cli

Bush's "ownership society" has collapsed under the dead weight of debt. There's just too much debt and too little income to support it. Please consider President shifts focus to renting, no

The only question that really matters in the housing market right now is the following: Does the recent strengthening in sales data signal an imminent bottom, or are we smack in the middle of a dead-

Base metals have witnessed a favorable uptrend and are most likely going to sustain this trend due to an uptick in demand and signs of a global economic recovery. Most recently, the National Associat