Real estate news update: 5-10

Written by Federal Title | 10 May 2010

A daily dose of headlines for real estate agents, mortgage lenders and consumers.

Bernanke sees 'reasons for optimism'
Business Week: Latest survey of banks’ senior loan officers, show most banks reported unchanged lending standards over the past three months. 		Home inventory rises in many cities
Wall Street Journal: The supply of homes available for sale in 27 major metropolitan areas at the end of April was up 2.6% from a month earlier.
Banks should make loans to sound borrowers
Huffington Post: Regulators must do all they can to help banks make loans to creditworthy borrowers, a development that's critical to strengthening the economic recovery.		Where Americans are losing the most home equity
Forbes: Nevada and Florida were some of the hardest-hit states when the real estate market unraveled in 2007, and the pain there persists.
Fed seen as unlikely to raise interest rates in 2010
Housing Wire: As unemployment is expected to stay high and home values depressed over the next several years, conditions look ripe for exceptionally low interest rates. 		Increase in household size could slow economic recovery
USA Today: The number of people living under one roof is growing for the first time in more than a century and could reduce demand for housing and slow the recovery.

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Headlines compiled by Strategic Research.

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