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Home Sales November 2009: New Home Sales Down - Is Housing Headed For A Double-Dip?

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 01.06.2010 | Business

Read More: National Association of Realtors, Housing Double Dip, Housing Market, Nar, Home Prices, New Home Sales, Home Sales, Mortgage Crisis, New Home Sales December, Business News

WASHINGTON — The number of people preparing to buy a home fell sharply in November, an unsettling new sign that the housing market may be headed...

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Foreclosures Hurting Home Appraisals

AP | ALEX VEIGA | Posted 01.04.2010 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, National Association of Realtors, San Diego, Real Estate Prices, Home Prices, Real Estate Agents, Home Sales, Home Values, Home Appraisals, Las Vegas, Short Sales, Business News

LOS ANGELES — It wasn't the first time that Katherine Scheri ruined a real estate agent's day with a low property appraisal. Scheri, a real est...

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November New Home Sales Sink 11 Percent, Lowest Level Since April

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 12.23.2009 | Business

Read More: First-Time Homebuyers Credit, New Home Sales November, Home Prices, Home Sales, Mark Vitner, New Home Sales, Real Estate Housing Prices, Business News

WASHINGTON — Sales of new homes plunged unexpectedly last month to the lowest level since April, a sign the housing market recovery will be rock...

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November Home Sales Soar 7.4%, Fueld By Tax Credits

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 12.22.2009 | Business

Read More: National Association of Realtors, Trulia.com, First-Time Homebuyers Credit, Home Prices, Homebuyer Credit, Home Sales, November Home Sales, Real Estate, Business News

WASHINGTON — Extraordinary government efforts to stabilize the housing market are paying off. What happens when the help runs out is anyone's gu...

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Detroit Needs Housing Rebound To Spur Pickup Sales

AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Housing Market, Housing, Truck Sales, Chevy, Chevrolet, Gm, Cars, Ford, Trucks, Home Sales, Automakers, New Homes, Cash for Clunkers, Detroit, Housing Boom, Construction, Pickup Trucks, Business News

DETROIT — At Kevin Haner's construction company in Las Vegas, three of the four Dodge Ram pickup trucks are starting to get a little old. He may...

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Tax Credit Helps Spur 33 Percent Jump In Home Sales From Last Year

Chicago Public Radio | Tony Arnold | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Real Estate, Chicago Home Sales, Real Estate, Home Sales, Chicago News

There's encouraging news out of Chicago's housing market. A new report from the Illinois Association of Realtors says home sales are going up in the C...

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October Home Sales Up 10.1 Percent From September

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Thomson Reuters, National Association of Realtors, October Home Sales, Home Sales, Home Prices, Subprime, Real Estate, Mortgage Crisis, Median Home Sales Price, Business News

WASHINGTON — Home sales surged for the second month in a row in October, climbing to the highest level in 2 1/2 years as first-time buyers rushe...

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Foreclosures Down 3% In October From September

AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Foreclosures, Treasury Department, Home Prices, Real Estate, Home Sales, Realtytrac, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

NEW YORK — The number of homeowners on the brink of losing their homes dipped in October, the third straight monthly decline, as foreclosure pre...

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New Home Sales Fall 3.6 Percent

Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, New Home Sales, Housing Crisis, New Homes, Home Sales, Business News

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sales of new U.S. homes dropped unexpectedly last month as the effects of a soon-to-expire tax credit for first-time owners started...

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Bloomberg: US GDP Probably Grew 3.2% As Stimulus Took Hold

Bloomberg | Timothy R. Homan | Posted 10.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Recovery, Car Sales, Durable Goods, Gdp, Economy, Cash for Clunkers, Commerce Department, Manufacturing, Economic Growth, Wall Street, Recession, Home Sales, Business News

The economy in the U.S. probably grew in the third quarter at the fastest pace in two years as government stimulus helped bring an end to the worst re...

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Home Sales Show Big Monthly Increase Due To Expiring Tax Credit

AP | ALAN ZIBEL and ALEX VEIGA | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business

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

WASHINGTON — Racing to complete their purchases before a tax credit for first-time owners expires, homebuyers pushed sales up last month by the ...

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Strangest Homes On The Market (PHOTOS)

AOL | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Real Estate Market, Houses, Homes, Real Estate, Home Sales, Business News

Oddball properties dot neighborhoods across the country--castle-like structures and homes built from lighthouses and bamboo. From a "residential commu...

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The Statistics Of The Great Recession

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Treasury Department, Economy, Home Sales, Recession, Debt, Personal Savings Rate, The Fed, Unemployment Rate, Barack Obama, Numbers, Statistics, Stock Gains, Stock Losses, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Peronal Debt, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Business News

NEW YORK — A year ago this weekend, the Dow Jones industrial average had just finished a slow-motion crash. Over eight days, it fell 2,400 point...

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Targeting the Scattershot Home Buying Tax Credit

David M. Abromowitz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Home Buyers, Homeowners, Foreclosure, First-Time Homebuyers Credit, Tax Credit, Home Sales, Business News

Four out of five buyers were handed $8,000 by other taxpayers for a purchase they would have made anyway. The Obama administration could do better by targeting the credit to people who need it.

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Home Buyer Credit: Clock Ticking On Tax Credit For First-Time Buyers

washingtonpost.com | Dina ElBoghdady | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: National Association of Realtors, First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit, Real Estate, Home Buyer Credit, Home Sales, Business News

First-time home buyers are scrambling to take advantage of an $8,000 tax credit set to expire in coming weeks, while Congress considers whether to ext...

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Want to See Neighborhoods that Beat the Bust? Take a Walk

John F. Wasik | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Boston, Pennsylvania, Living News, New Mexico, Personal Health, Neighborhoods, Health, Home Sales, Georgia, Atlanta, Seattle, San Francisco, Cities, New York, Home Foreclosures, Business News

Pedestrian-friendly cities can make huge personal economic sense. If you don't need a car, you can save thousands a year.

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Rescued by the House No One Wanted

Tina Traster | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Rescue, Old House, Suburbia, Burb Appeal, Rescue Plan, Abandoned Pets, Pets, Home Prices, Home Sales, House Renovation, Adopting Pets, Happiness, Adoption, Living News

I have a thing for rescue. Put in certain circumstances I act before I think, especially when crises involve animals. It's a reflex.

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Great Recession: All's Well That Ends Well?

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Banks, Michael Wolff, Dow Jones, Obama Socialist, Bank Bonuses, Barack Obama, Recession, Home Sales, Business News

So it's almost official. The recession is almost over.

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Kiss The Deals Goodbye

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Attorneys, Law Practice, Real Estate, Recession, Economy, Home Sales, Business News

While buyers dally, sellers fret. They can't realistically make offers on move-up homes or retirement villas or pay off their creditors.

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Still a Shaky Foundation for Housing

Dan Dorfman | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Housing Bubble, Home Foreclosures, Home Sales, Business News

Would you buy a stock that has a good chance of going down in the current slumping stock market? If your absurd answer is yes, you might also want buy a house.

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May Existing Home Sales Up 2.4 Percent, Less Than Expected (VIDEO)

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business

Read More: National Association of Realtors, May Home Sales, Existing Home Sales, Real Estate Prices, Home Sales, Real Estate, 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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Construction Spending, Home Sales Rise

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business

Read More: New Home Sales, March Home Sales, Construction Spending, Home Sales, Business News

WASHINGTON — Evidence that housing is poised to improve and optimism about the results of banking "stress tests" raised hopes Monday that the re...

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Second Home Sales Fall 30%

AP | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Second Home Sales, National Association of Realtors, Nar Home Sales Report, Nar Report, Second Home Sales Fall, Home Sales, Business News

WASHINGTON — Sales of vacation and investment homes slid 22 percent last year, a sign that tough economic conditions and tight lending requireme...

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Economic News: Desperately Seeking Succor

Rick Horowitz | Posted 04.29.2009 | Business

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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