Joe Spake

The week’s best real estate stories: Making Multi-Generational Housing Work In our not-so-distant past, it was commonplace for multiple generations to live under the same roof. Real Estate: Pocket Listings in a Tight Market NAR: Buyer traffic up 29% from a year ago Existing-home sales improved for the second month in a row in May, […]

The week’s best real estate stories: The Return of the 10 Percent Down Payment | Zillow Blog Before the credit crisis of the mid-2000s, getting a home loan was simple. Your down payment was small — if you even had to make one. To qualify, all you had to do was “state” your income and […]

The week’s best real estate stories: Here is why it is not another housing bubble Real estate prices declined so much after the market bust that it will take a 60% price jump to reach bubble-era levels. First Of Its Kind, Consumer-facing MLS Website Launched We are going to be hearing more and more about […]