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August Housing Starts hit 750,000 for a gain of +2.3% but the prior month was revised to -2.8% from -1.1%…
NEW YORK (24/7 Wall St./MarketWatch) — Since the peak in early 2006, the median price of a U.S. home is…
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly report on mortgage applications this morning, noting a decrease of 0.2% in…
Zillow, Inc. (NASDAQ: Z) reported today that mortgage rates have fallen back to record lows this week. The report showed…
The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo housing market index increased to a seasonally adjusted reading of 40 in September.…
Home improvement chain Lowe’s Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) this morning announced that it had dropped its hostile attempt to acquire…
The interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to an average of 3.55% last week according to Freddie Mac.…
The rate of foreclosures in the U.S. has crept up again, after a number of months of improvement in some…
Research firm CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX) reported today that both the number and total value of residential properties with negative equity…
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly report on mortgage applications this morning, noting an increase of 1.1% in…
Since home prices peaked in the beginning of 2006, the U.S. median home price is down by a third. And…
According to the federal government, so far this year more than 2 million acres have been burned by nearly 10,000…
Share prices for homebuilders’ stocks began rising at the beginning of the year and all but two of the homebuilders…
The Mortgage Bankers Association released its weekly report on mortgage applications this morning, noting a 2.5% decline in the group’s…
The housing market is showing signs of a recovery, albeit a halting one. In 10 states, median home prices increased by…
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