Shaun Hamman's (shamman) Blog

Despite the fact that California saw an overall drop in home sales last year, the number of homes that sold for $1 million or more increased for the first time since 2005. According to the report conducted by DataQuick Information Systems, a real estate information service, the number of million...

As the market begins to show some signs of life, home values are appearing to drop - which could be a signifier that purchase activity could soon rise. According to data collected from Zillow.com, the average value of homes in the U.S. fell 4.7% year over year (Y-o-Y) to $146,900 whilemajor U.S. ...

Existing-home sales continued on an upward trend in December, marking three consecutive months of rising numbers. According to a recent press release from the National Association of Realtors®, December 2011 showed a 5.0 percent increase in existing-home sales and were 3.6 percent higher than tho...