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Eighteen banking, securities and housing groups have joined together to issue a warning to three California municipalities looking to use eminent...
home building, construction spending, May, 2012, increase, residential
A 3 percent increase in residential construction spending in May pushed overall construction spending up 0.9 percent for the month, the largest jump...
  David Weekley Homes, the third largest privately held home builder in the country, has made its 70,000th closing in its Barr II Community in...
Conference Board, consumer confidence, index, June 2012, present conditions
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index, which had declined in May, fell further in June, according to data released Tuesday.
Case-Shiller Home Price Index, April 2012, composite, 10-City, 20-City
Both composites of the Case-Shiller Home Price Index registered declines in April, according to new data released today, but the rates of decline...
Sales of new single-family houses in May 2012 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 369,000, according to estimates released jointly today by...
A poll by TD Bank revealed that owning a home is still very much a part of the American Dream.
What ‘taxaggedon’ would mean for home builders
Economists at the National Association of Home Builders recently analyzed the impacts of the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts (or “Taxaggedon,” as...
A limited supply of homes has lead to a drop in the number of existing-home sales in May, but numbers are still ahead of those from a year ago,...
Trulia's recent American Dream survey revealed consumers are showing some bright glimmers of optimism about the future of the housing market. They're...
 

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