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>> Market Update INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE There wasn't a ton of housing news last week, but one can always find a few significant items. For example, foreclosure filings in February were down 2% from January and up just 6% from a year
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>> Market Update INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE New home sales fell 11.2% in January to a record low level. Existing home sales weren't very pretty either, down 7.2%, though they're UP 11.5% over a year ago. Let's remember that last
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>> Market Update INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE The National Association of Realtors last Thursday reported existing home sales UP 27.2% for the last three months of 2009 versus a year earlier. This amounted to a seasonally adjusted annual rate
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Breaking News HUD TAKES ACTION TO SPEED RESALE OF FORECLOSURES With certain exceptions, FHA currently prohibits insuring a mortgage on a home owned by the seller for less than 90 days. This temporary waiver will give FHA borrowers access to a broader
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>> Market Update INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE Our hearts go out to the people of Haiti recovering from the terrible tragedy of last Tuesday's earthquake. We know everyone's thoughts are with the Haitians. It has been inspiring to see
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Market Update INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE Last week gave us more proof the country's housing market is heating up. According to Freddie Mac's quarterly national Conventional Home Price Index (CMHPI), home prices were UP 0.9% in Q3 for their
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>> Market Update INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE Positive economic reports on housing continue, with October Pending Home Sales UP 3.7%. This was the ninth month in a row Pending Home Sales rose and the index is now 31.8% over October last year.
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>> Market Update INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE Thursday the Wall Street Journal reported Q3 home sales at an annual rate of 5.3 million units. That was an 11.4% gain over Q2's 4.76 million units. Experts put much of the rising sales to the
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>> Market Update INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE Last week September New Home Sales were reported down 3.6% for single-family units. But the supply of unsold new homes is just 7.5 months and inventories, at 251,000, are down 56.1% from their mid-2006
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>> Market Update INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE For the third week in a row, rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages remained below 5% in Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey. The average for conforming mortgages was 4.92% with an average
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>> Market Update INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE Another good week for the housing market. The S&P/Case Shiller home price index was up for the third month in a row and the rate of annual decline fell for the sixth month in a row! Price increases
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>> Market Update INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE Housing starts for new single-family homes and apartments continued their steady rise, up 1.5% for August, their strongest pace in nine months. This puts housing starts at a seasonally adjusted annual
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INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE - Last week began with somewhat tepid housing news, as starts were reported down 1.0% for July. But once again, the decline was all due to a drop in the volatile multi-family part of the market. In fact, single-family starts
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>> Home Base INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE We got another positive housing report last week, this time with Pending Home Sales shooting up a surprising 3.6% after a mere 0.7% was expected by the experts. This makes five consecutive months of gains
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>> Home Base INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE We may finally be seeing the end to the home building bust and the start of what some believe will be a sizable recovery in residential construction over the next few years. Friday morning, Housing Starts
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