A Psychological Bubble for Homeowners
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According to a survey released earlier this week, denial is precisely what appears to be at work in the minds of many homeowners across the United States.
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And so the great real estate boom has ended. Left in its wake are anxious sellers and hopeful renters, fidgety buyers and freebie-wielding developers, deserted open houses and blocks crowded with for-sale signs, scaled-back retirement plans and first-time homes that suddenly seem within reach.
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You may not have to pay as much as you're paying to protect your home.
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Empty homes and for-sale signs clutter neighborhoods. You've lost your job or know someone who has. Your paycheck and nest egg are taking a hit. Could the country be in recession?
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Imagine buying a new home where your  neighbors can decide how it's decorated, what you cook for  dinner, how big your dog is and what kind of sex you have. And  they can toss you out if they don't like it.
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Even the rosiest forecasts for next year&#39;s real estate market caution that higher interest rates nationally could shrink the pool of potential home buyers.
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"House Lust: America's Obsession With Our Homes" (Currency, 272 pages, $24.95), by Daniel McGinn: Despite the nation's housing slump, Americans love homes.
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Price and consumer satisfaction are not necessarily fellow travelers, according to a survey of new-home buyers. But buyers of new homes in the greater Bay Area were for the most part satisfied with the people
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The truism that higher interest rates function as a tax on people who hold variable debt has been particularly apparent to homeowners holding adjustable-rate mortgages.
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By Alex Doniach / doniach@commercialappealcom  Paul Hein bought a home in his quiet Northaven suburb 28 years ago - before his neighbors became renters who let their weeds grow wild and trash collect on their front lawns.
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Soaring U.S. home values in the first five years of this decade have left homeowners feeling flush, but housings costs also have risen sharply, cutting into stagnant incomes, Census Bureau data show.
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Imagine buying a new home where your neighbors can decide how it's decorated, what you cook for dinner, how big your dog is and what kind of sex you have. And they can toss you out if they don't like it.
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You can sell your home but stay in it -- sort of.
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Danger lurks down the road for people with interest-only mortgages.
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The hard-charging homebuilding stocks are making believers of some investors.
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Some aggressive ways to buy a house can burn you later.
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Playing the U.S. housing market may no longer require actually buying a home.