Doral Financial Corp., the Puerto Rican holding company that owns Doral Bank, reported a more than $230 million second-quarter loss as efforts to unload soured loans and mortgage-related assets hurt results...Read More
NEW YORK -- New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. is scheduled to report financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2010 after the close of market on August 3, 2010. New York Mortgage Trust's executive management will host a conference call and audio webcast at 9:00 a.m., Eastern Time, on Wednesday, August 4, 2010...Read More
It takes a lot of courage to be a bull on homebuilder stocks these days. They exist, for sure. And they aren't on mind-bending drugs. In fact, they see the world much as the housing stock bears do. You won't find any uplifting messages in their reports on the economy and housing....Read More
Modern America has long paired the "America Dream" with home ownership. The idea of staying put, paying property taxes and periodically mowing the lawn belonged to citizens who were somehow more American than the poor saps who could only afford to rent the place they called home....Read More
With plans to start a family, Michael and Becky McCullough, 33 and 31, wanted more space. So last year they snapped up a four-bedroom foreclosure in Brookhaven, Ga., for $480,000....Read More
The number of Americans who own homes fell in the second quarter of the year to the lowest level since 1999, said a government survey released Tuesday....Read More
Home prices rose slightly in May compared with a month earlier, appearing to have stablized at the lower levels that followed the end of the residential real estate bubble, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index of 20 major housing markets released Tuesday....Read More