The first years of the U.S. economy's recovery from the Great Recession yielded strong gains in total wealth for the richest Americans, while every ot...

(Reuters) - The Dow Jones industrial average is at an all-time high, the jobless rate has fallen to a four-year low and the housing market is seeing a...

Although most of the housing markets with big price gains exhibit unhealthy fundamentals, some markets with rising prices are healthy. Markets with flat or falling prices include both healthy and unhealthy markets.

Each month, Trulia's Housing Barometer charts how quickly the housing market is moving back to "normal." "Conventional" home sales were up 26% year-over-year in December.

What explains these local differences in construction activity? These top markets for 2012 construction tend to have strong job growth and low vacancy rates, and they suffered relatively little during the housing bust

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Everyone agrees the economy will falter if we go off the fiscal cliff, but how will the tax increases and spending cuts it will trigger impact the housing market?

Not only is the housing market closer to normal than at any other point since the crisis, the recovery is also accelerating.

WASHINGTON — U.S. builders started construction last month on the most homes and apartments since July 2008, more evidence that the housing reco...

It's typical for sellers to lower the asking price of their home if it's been sitting on the market for a while. But the super-rich have a different w...

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U.S. home prices rose in June from the same month last year, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index released Tuesday. ...

Prices are rising in at-risk metros because prices have fallen so far that they've attracted interest from prospective investors and international homebuyers, whose interest in U.S. homes can be volatile; in contrast, prices are rising in the in-the-clear metros primarily due to job growth.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans bought new homes in May at the fastest pace in more than two years. The increase suggests a modest recovery is continuin...

Warren Buffett seems pretty confident the housing market is making a comeback. How confident? Well, he just ponied up $3.85 billion for a mortgage...

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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Goldman Sachs is betting on a housing turnaround. The firm that made billions shorting mortgage-backed securities prior to the 2007 housing collap...

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