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For the past five months, applications for new mortgages have risen, suggesting that regular buyers may be starting to play a bigger role in the housing recovery. A shift would be significant.

Home sales recently have been the strongest we've seen in a long time (though they are expected to temper in January due to a normal winter slowdown). All of that sounds great, but here's the problem: It seems to be mostly smoke and mirrors.

Increased buyer demands and Low Housing Inventory in San Diego makes you ask Has the Real Estate Market Recovered? Alan Harris with the San Diego Homes on Sale Team at Keller Williams released the latest San Diego Real Estate Market Statistics.

Charles Blumenkehl, managing partner for Blue Asset Management LLC, sees home appraisals causing difficulties for buyers trying to obtain mortgages on their dream homes and consequently for sellers of real estate in today’s market.

According to Charles Blumenkehl, managing partner for Blue Asset Management LLC, purchasing real estate today as it relates to income is at its most affordable levels since before 1989.

Charles Blumenkehl, managing partner of Blue Asset Management LLC sees buyers favoring smaller and more energy efficient homes with lower costs over larger “McMansion’ type properties.

Charles Blumenkehl of Blue Asset Management LLC says home prices in New Jersey have been stabilizing and are even experiencing gains in certain markets.

There was NEVER a real estate recovery in the real sense of the word.

Property flipping was partly to blame for getting Florida and the rest of the country into its current financial mess, and flipping just might be what helps the state and nation come back out.

The green shoots of recovery in the housing market that started to appear this spring have blossomed into record house sales in some regions, according to Winkworth Estate Agents.