Top 10 most expensive homes sold in the Baltimore area in 2016

Anne Arundel County again dominated the luxury homes market last year, but homes from Harford, Howard and Baltimore counties moved up in the ranks. Take a peek at the priciest pads sold in the Baltimore region in 2016.

Posted: Jan 12 2017
Categories: Real Estate

Becoming a landlord is just a click away

Smaller investors are getting a boost from firms using extensive data to help them become landlords in cities across the country.

Posted: Jan 12 2017
Categories: Real Estate

Bank of America earnings per share beat expectations, increase 48%

Bank of America showed a positive quarter, and even beat already high expectations. But while the increase is up from last year, it still declined from the third quarter. The bank’s chief financial officer explains that rising interest rates, while not in time for the fourth quarter, could push net interest income even higher in 2017.

Posted: Jan 11 2017
Categories: Real Estate

First look at Wells Fargo, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase earnings

It’s that time of year again. Friday marks the start of the fourth-quarter earnings season for the financial sector, with Wells Fargo, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase kicking it off. Here’s how the banks are predicted to report.

Posted: Jan 11 2017
Categories: Real Estate

HUD nominee Dr. Ben Carson refuses to promise that HUD money won’t go to Trump empire

Trump HUD nominee Ben Carson did promise to "not play favorites for anyone."

Posted: Jan 11 2017
Categories: Real Estate

Baltimore-area home sales, prices rise in December

Baltimore-area home sales and prices continued on an upward trend in December, as inventory fell below 10,000 for the first time since January 2014.

Just under 3,200 Baltimore-area home sales closed in December, up 5 percent from the previous year and the highest level of December sales in a decade,...

Posted: Jan 10 2017
Categories: Real Estate

Here are the questions Elizabeth Warren wants Ben Carson to answer

The eyes of the housing industry will be trained to Capitol Hill today, as Ben Carson, the former Republican presidential candidate, retired neurosurgeon, and President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to the lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, appears for his confirmation hearing. In a letter sent to Carson in advance of his hearing, Sen. Elizabeth Warren revealed the questions she wants Carson to have an answer for when he appears before the committee – 35 of them, in all.

Posted: Jan 10 2017
Categories: Real Estate

Mortgage applications rebound 5.8%, as interest rates ease off recent highs

Caution in the new year among investors was enough to put a little juice back into the mortgage market. Here's how.

Posted: Jan 10 2017
Categories: Real Estate

Democracy needs you to survive, Obama says in emotional farewell address

In an emotional farewell address to the nation, President Barack Obama urged Americans on Tuesday night to stand guard against fear and unite to protect democracy.