 Renting vs Buying
Your first home purchase: Everything you need to know
03/17/2008
t's a "buyer's market" out there. Translation: Homes are cheap. There are plenty for sale. Interest rates are relatively low. There's one teensy problem, though: It's tough to buy a new house when you're still trying to unload the old one. That, real estate executives and agents say, is why 2008 could be the year of sweet deals for first-time buyers. In January, the average sale price for a single-family home in Northeast Ohio hovered around $132,800, down nearly 14 percent from a year before...
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Michelle Jarboe - Cleveland: Plain Dealer
Northeast Ohio home prices continue to slide
03/26/2008
Home prices continue to slide in Greater Cleveland as frustrated sellers take less for their properties than they ever expected. Two new reports show tumbling prices. Tuesday, Standard & Poor's reported that home prices here fell 8.5 percent during the 12 months ending in January. The report, known as the Case-Shiller index, showed a 10.7 percent decline in 20 metropolitan areas nationwide. That release followed news from the Northern Ohio Regional Multiple Listing Service that sales price...(more)
Michelle Jarboe - Cleveland: Plain Dealer
Renting vs. Buying a Home
Aug. 15, 2006
At a time when the housing market is in constant flux, are you better off paying a mortgage, or paying rent? (more)
ABC News.Com
Peer to Peer Lending
Peer-to-peer lending hits its stride
As the global credit squeeze leads banks to tighten their lending, a niche industry is emerging as the eBay of consumer loans: peer-to-peer lenders. (more)
Kathy Chu - USA Today
Lots Of Loans, But No Banks
07/03/06
Finance co-ops have hit the Web, and they look like a good deal for borrowers and lenders. (more)
Timothy J. Mullaney - Buisnessweek |
