Market Update INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE You can't sugar-coat last week's housing reports, but they don't necessarily foretell a "double-dip" recession in real estate. July Existing Homes Sales were off 27.2%, at an annual rate...

>> Market Update INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE Some analysts feel the homebuyer tax credits artificially boosted the housing market by pushing forward home sales that would have happened later. Others feel most buyers would have bought anyway....

>> Market Update INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE Last Thursday pending home sales, a measure of contracts signed for existing homes, were reported off 30% in May compared to the prior month. This of course was simply the result of the end of the...

>> Market Update INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported the Pending Homes Sales index rose in April for the third month in a row , registering a 6% increase over the upwardly revised March figure. This...

>> Market Update INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE For the third month in a row, Existing Home Sales beat expectations, UP 7.6% for April and UP 22.8% over a year ago. A lot of the gain was put to the tax credit expiration that required a signed contract...