It tracks building permits (an excellent indicator of what homeowners, businesses and new construction are doing), inflation for my area, homes sales, job growth and loss, and the PMI or purchasing managers index.

Anya-If you are looking for low management fees, go with passive index fund/ETF investing with Vanguard.  

Flipping reminds me of a day trader vs a buy and hold reminds me of long term investor who indexes the entire stock market.I guess it really boils down to what do you enjoy doing?

RichWASHINGTON, April 5 – The list of housing markets showing measurable improvement expanded slightly to include 101 metropolitan areas in April, according to the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index (IMI), released today.

The content is more dynamic, and works better with Google and its indexing of web pages.

While researching a property that is scheduled for foreclosure auction, I noticed a large discrepancy in the valuation given to the property by the broker (exterior BPO only), the valuation from Zillow using Zillow’s Home Value Index and what the property is worth on a technical basis when utilizing the Case Shiller Index.The decrease in value of the property vs. the prior sale price is as follows according to the three sources:BPO: -32% Case Shiller: - 17% Zillow: -47%The BPO is comparing this property to like kind properties within a small radius.

You can't tell from tax records, but you can from an indexed search of your county records.

The Consumer Confidence Index is not helping.

I started out with blank index cards hahahaha!

It seems like a pleasant dream, but if price should happen to fall, you'll like find the affordability index dropping even faster.Housing in my neck of the woods is ALWAYS in short supply.