6/15/2009 8:18:00 PM
Housing Market Week of June 15, 2009
>> Home Base INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE We got the news last week that May foreclosure filings were down 6% from April. This was the first month-on-month decline since January. On top of that, the drop would have been larger except for increases ...
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6/8/2009 11:20:00 AM
Housing for the week of June 8, 2009
>> Home Base INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE Lots of encouraging housing news last week. April Pending Home Sales came in UP 6.7%, rising for the third straight month and a 3.2% improvement over a year ago! The National Association of Realtors housing ...
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5/28/2009 4:38:00 PM
For the week of May 25, 2009
>> Home Base INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE Last Tuesday, Housing Starts for April came in at an annual rate of 458,000 units, a drop of 12.8%. Ignored by the media was the fact that ALL the decline came from a 46.1% drop in multiple-family starts, ...
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5/18/2009 8:40:00 AM
Housing Market for the week of May 18, 2009
>> Home Base INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that the median price for a single-family home in Q1 was 13.8% lower than in Q1 a year ago. But first-time buyers represented half of all purchases and many ...
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5/6/2009 9:34:00 AM
Housing Market - Week of May 4, 2009
>> Home Base INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE CNBC's Jim Cramer recently interviewed Toll Brothers CEO Robert Toll and his take on the national housing market got a lot of play. The homebuilder said he see signs of a rebound in "80% of the country." ...
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4/27/2009 4:37:00 PM
Housing Market Week of April 27, 2009
>> Home Base INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE March Existing Home Sales came in last week down slightly, to a 4.57 million annual rate. But the number of homes sold was still 1.8% above January's lows. With the sales level in the same range for the ...
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4/20/2009 10:30:00 AM
Housing Market Week of April 20, 2009
>> Home Base INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE Last week's March housing starts came in a little worse than expected – a 10.8% decline, to a 510,000 unit annual rate. And new building permits were down 9.0% for March, to an annual rate of 513,000 ...
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4/13/2009 4:09:00 PM
Housing Market Week of April 12, 2009
>> Home Base INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE The best housing news we've seen lately is that homes now are very very affordable. In fact, the National Association of Realtors reported that homes haven't been this affordable since they began calculating ...
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4/6/2009 11:02:00 AM
Housing Market for the Week of April 6, 2009
>> Home Base INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE Well, well, well – last week saw yet another encouraging indicator for the housing market. Pending sales of existing homes, based on contracts signed in February, rose 2.1% over January. Compared to ...
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3/30/2009 9:12:00 AM
Housing Market for the week of March 30, 2009
>> Home Base INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE Correction to this week's PowerTools newsletter: First-time homebuyers who purchase a home before December 1, 2009, will receive up to $8,000 in tax credit. People can claim the credit either on their ...
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