Hard Currency: What a Ton of Cash Will Buy

With more and more financial transactions being conducted electronically, it’s easy to forget the physicality of money. What a dollar weighs, or a pile of them. So just for fun, let’s start piling up the Benjamins and see what …

Prospective Homebuyers: Time Is on Your Side

The latest reports on home sales and prices offer a complicated and conflicted picture. But when the data are taken together, one thing is clear: Weighing risk and reward, it’s worth waiting a few months to see which way the re…

What the Housing Market Is Signaling Now

Home sales have started to rebound, with half the nation’s markets experiencing price gains in the last quarter of 2010. They weren’t great gains, but they were progress. Here’s what the latest moves mean for buyers, for seller…

U.S. Home Prices Fall to Pre-Bubble Levels

The drop in home values caused by the mortgage crisis has resulted in one positive outcome: Prices have fallen so far that home affordability is back to pre-housing-boom levels, reports Moody’s Analytics. But a quarter of house…

Nevada Unemployment: The Worst Gets Worse

Nevada’s unemployment rate hit a new high in December 2010 — and with home prices continuing to fall, the beleaguered state’s problems are far from over.
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