Integrated Asset Services, LLC (IAS, www.iasreo.com), a leader in default management and residential collateral valuation, today released its IAS360 House Price Index for August 2008. The monthly report, which includes the most current and granular data available in the industry, showed a 0.2 % decline in house prices on a national level in August, and an […]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and His Dream for New York City
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a dream: He wants to make vast, populous, sprawling New York City "the first environmentally sustainable city of the 21st century." He has 100 proposals on his list to make the city sustainable, in addition to the ones he has already enacted. Citizens may grumble, but there is no smoking in […]
US home sales hit 13-year low
New single-family home sales fell 4.7 per cent in December to its lowest rate in nearly 13 years, a US government report said today. New home sales fell to an annual rate of 604,000 from a downwardly revised rate of 634,000 in November, the Commerce Department said. Economists were expecting December sales to fall to […]