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Trulia's Housing Barometer: Recovery Slowly, Steadily Pushes Ahead

Jed Kolko | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Housing Market, Real Estate, Housing, Foreclosures, New Construction, Existing Home Sales, Housing Data, Housing Trends, Money News

Aside from a dip in March, the recovery is slowly but steadily pushing ahead. The housing market is now 37% of the way back to normal, compared with just 20% back to normal a year ago.

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First-Time Homebuyers Boost Sales Of Previously Owned Homes

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Sales of Previously Owned Homes, Housing Bust, Housing Market, Video, Housing Crash, Housing Recovery, Home Sales, U.S. Housing Market, Business News, u.s. Home Sales, First-Time Home Buyers, Existing Home Sales, Business News

WASHINGTON — Americans are buying more homes in every region of the country, the latest indication that the housing market could be on the mend....

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Trulia's Housing Barometer: Recovery Slips Backward in March

Jed Kolko | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Foreclosures, Housing Market, Existing Home Sales, Housing, New Construction, Real Estate, Business News

What does a "normal" housing market look like, and how far away are we? The housing recovery is progressing, though it's taken one step backwards after a few strides forward.

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Are We There Yet? Trulia's Housing Barometer

Jed Kolko | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Foreclosures, Existing Home Sales, Housing Market, Delinquency, Housing, New Construction, Real Estate, Money News

On the long road of housing recovery, we're all kids in the back seat wondering: are we there yet? After years of bad news about the housing market, it's hard to remember what "normal" looks like.

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Such Pessimism Is Unwarranted -- Who Should Rescue Housing?

Harlan Green | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Business Inventories, Housing, Existing-Home Sales, Tim Geithner Treasury Secretary, Personal Savings Rate, HARP II, Hamp, Business News

Business and Wall Street economists in particular are predicting just 2 percent GDP growth for all of 2012. Why such pessimism?

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Pending Home Sales Surge To 1.5 Year High

Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Housing Market, Video, Pending Home Sales November 2011, Pending-Home-Sales, Home Sales, U.S. Housing Market, Business News, Housing Indicators, Existing Home Sales, Business News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pending sales of existing homes surged to a 1-1/2 year high in November, an industry group said on Thursday, offering more ...

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Sales Of Previously-Owned Homes Unexpectedly Fall In June

Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Housing, Home Sales, Renting, Homeownership, Homeowners Association, Cancellations, Homeowners, Existing Home Sales, June Home Sales, Home Startup, Business News

WASHINGTON (Lucia Mutikani) - Sales of previously owned homes unexpectedly fell in June to touch a seven-month low as cancellations of pending con...

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Home Sellers in the Mood for a Malady

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 06.03.2011

Read More: Attorneys, Sellers, Lawyers, Home Sales, Homeowners, NY Real Estate, Real Estate, Business, Existing Home Sales, New York News

As an attorney, I take it in stride when a homeowner needs their thorny title issues treated or building department woes made well, but these days, I have no remedies for what's ailing sellers.

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Home Sales Plummet As Housing Market May Have Further To Fall

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Association of Realtors, Housing Market, Home Prices, Home Sales, Economic Recovery, Existing Home Sales, Business News

Sales of previously owned U.S. homes fell sharply in February, after several months of increases, according to a report released Monday, in an another...

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Undercut Thy Neighbor

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Real Estate Transactions, Home Buyers, Suburbia, Home Sellers, Homeowners, NY Real Estate, Existing Home Sales, Real Estate, Home Sales, New York News

If there's a news report soon about a formerly nice suburban neighborhood morphing into a home-selling battlefield, I may have to take a bit of the blame.

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Home Sales Up, But Prices Hit Lowest Level Since 2002

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business News, Existing Home Prices, National Association of Realtors, Existing Home Sales, Housing Crisis, Housing Market, Business News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of previously owned U.S. homes rose unexpectedly in January, but prices tumbled to the lowest in nearly nine years, an...

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Houses of Rage

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Anger, Home Sales, Homeowners, Real Estate, NY Real Estate, Existing Home Sales, Housing Crisis, Housing Market, Houses for Sale in NY, Housing Market Predictions, For Sale Signs, Healthy Living News

Some houses sell quickly, but many can linger on the market for about one year. During that time, the disappointments suffered by homeowners can coalesce into pure fury.

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PHOTOS: 8 Cities Where Home Prices PLUNGED In The Last Year

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Association of Realtors, Miami Real Estate, Home Prices, New Orleans Real Estate, Atlanta Real Estate, Philadelphia, Existing Home Sales, Slidepollajax, Kansas City, Business News

If you're still reeling from today's grim data from the National Association of Realtors, which reported that sales of previously-occupied homes fell ...

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Existing Homes Sales PLUNGE To 15-Year Low

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Association of Realtors, Real Estate, Existing Home Sales, Slidepollajax, Home Prices, Home Sales, Business News

(WASHINGTON, BY ALAN ZIBEL and J.W. ELPHINSTONE, AP): Sales of previously occupied homes plunged last month to the lowest level in 15 years, despite ...

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Existing Home Sales Fall 7.2% In January, Weakest Result Since June

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Association of Realtors, Existing Home Sales, Existing Home Sales January, Real Estate Prices, Home Prices, Home Sales, Business News

WASHINGTON — Sales of previously owned homes plunged in January to their lowest level since summer, evidence that high unemployment and tight le...

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December Home Sales Take Largest Monthly Drop In More Than 40 YEARS

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Association of Realtors, Nar, Home Sales, Home Values, December Home Sales, First-Time Home Buyers Credit, Real Estate, Existing Home Sales, Business News

WASHINGTON — Sales of previously occupied homes took the largest monthly drop in more than 40 years last month, sinking more dramatically than e...

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Bernanke to Housing Market: Please Don't Drop Dead

Eric Schurenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Home Sales, First-Time Homebuyers Credit, Existing Home Sales, Macro-Economics, Exit Strategy, Kevin Warsh, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Mark Thoma, Jill Schlesinger, Business News

Uncle Sam has to ease out of banking, autos and all the programs authorized under the Obama stimulus bill without either starving the recovery or feeding inflation.

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Dow Above 9,000 For First Time Since January

AP | Tim Paradis and Sara Lepro, AP Business Writers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Home Sales, Existing Home Sales, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Ford Motor Company, Dija, Business News

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Dow Jones industrials rose back above 9,000 for the first time since early January. Investors snapped up a broad range of stocks...

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May Existing Home Sales Up 2.4 Percent

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Association of Realtors, May Home Sales, Existing Home Sales, Real Estate Prices, Home Sales, Real Estate, Video, Business News

WASHINGTON — Sales of previously occupied homes rose modestly from April to May, the third monthly increase this year, but signs of a housing re...

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Economic News: Desperately Seeking Succor

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cnbc, Durable Goods Sales, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, New-Home Sales, Financial News Coverage, Business News, Existing-Home Sales, Home Sales, Business News

So I say it's time to invest in straws. Let's corner the straw market, and ride the tide of exploding straw demand to riches we've only dreamed about!

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Florida Home Sales Surge For Fifth Month

mjperry.blogspot.com | Mark J. Perry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Florida, Home Sales Florida, Real Estate, Florida Real Estate, Existing Home Sales, Florida Home Sales, Home Sales, Business News

Florida's existing home sales rose in January, making it the fifth month in a row that sales activity showed increases in the year-to-year comparison,...

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Existing Home Sales Dip As Housing Slump Rages On

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Home Sales, Existing Home Sales, Business News

WASHINGTON — Sales of existing homes fell in March, the seventh drop in the past eight months, as the spring sales season got off to a rocky sta...

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Existing Home Sales Decline

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Association of Realtors, Credit Crunch, Existing Home Sales, Housing Crisis, Home Prices, Business News

WASHINGTON — Sales of existing homes fell for the sixth straight month in January, dropping to the slowest sales pace on record. Median home pri...

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