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Business financials advice, reports, and trends for professional home builders and remodelers.
The House passes repeal, but bill differs from Senate version, so no resolution yet
Mortgage rates declined for the third straight week, according to Housing Predictor, falling to 4.87% for a 30-year fixed-rate loan.
Bank regulators are backing a rule that would require a 20 percent down payment on lower risk mortgages that would be exempt from new lending rules.
The Census Department’s data on new construction sales is wildy inaccurate, housing analyst Ivy Zelman told CNBC.com last week. According to Zelman’s...
California all-cash home sales increase
All-cash buyers accounted for 30.9 percent of home and condominium sales in California in January, with even higher percentages in some wealthy...
Americans are increasingly pessimistic about the economy and the housing market according to the results of a Fannie Mae survey.
Of the 2.7 million homeowners who tried to get mortgage help from the Obama administration’s assistance program, only a quarter actually got their...
Here are five signs that say “buy,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
After a slow but steady climb, mortgage rates eased up last week, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Sales of newly built single-family homes decreased 12.6 percent in January to a seasonally adjusted 284,000 units, according to data released by the...
 

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