Home sales in Texas were down during the first quarter despite a surge in active listings, according to new data from Texas Realtors. The 70,944 sales that closed in the first quarter represented a 1.5% year-over-year decline, despite a 30.7% upswing in active...
Home sales in Pennsylvania during March totaled 8,230 transactions, up 21% from 6,751 sales in February. According to data from the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors (PAR), the number of homes listed in March was 32,761, up nearly 10% from February. The median...
Mark Skender, former CEO of Chicago-based Skender Construction, passed away on April 18 at the age of 61. Skender was born Dec. 3, 1963, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an MBA from...
The number of programs offering down payment assistance increased by 43 during the first quarter, a 2% quarterly uptick that brought the total number of available programs to 2,509, according to data from Down Payment Resource (DPR). The nationwide average benefit...
HGTV star Tarek El Moussa has revealed that he pockets $675,000 a month from his house flipping work. El Moussa shared his financial success in an interview on the podcast “Trading Secrets,” where he promoted his new book “Flip Your Life.” “Since I started in 2010,...
