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3 hrs ago | Hispanic Business

California Home Price Increases Most in 33 Years

The median price of a previously owned house in California soared 31.9 percent in May, the largest year-over-year increase in more than three decades as sales of more expensive properties increased and inventory remained tight, a trade group said Monday.

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Related Topix: Real Estate, Los Angeles County, CA

8 hrs ago | The Hartford Courant

Housing starts miss expectations, but overall tone upbeat

Housing starts rose less than expected in May, likely reflecting labor and material constraints, but the overall trend remained consistent with strength in the housing market.

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Related Topix: Home Building, Ansonia, CT

12 hrs ago | KMIZ

Home building continues to rise

The number housing starts rose 7 percent to an annual pace of 914,000 homes, according to a government report out Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

13 hrs ago | Daytona Beach News-Journal Online

Second-home sales help fuel real estate surge New Smyrna Beach a " Anne ...

Orlando-area residents Anne and Brian Fuselier look out over the Indian River recently from the third floor of their vacation home in New Smyrna Beach.News-Journal/DAVID TUCKER NEW SMYRNA BEACH - Anne and Brian Fuselier searched about a year and half - from "Vero to Palm Coast" - before they finally found their dream second home.

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Related Topix: New Smyrna Beach, FL, Palm Coast, FL, Real Estate, Daytona Beach, FL

17 hrs ago | Bloomberg

Wall Street Lending Rises For Private Equity Rentals

Wall Street is ramping up financing to private-equity firms buying homes to rent, helping them accelerate purchases as competition increases and prices jump .

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Related Topix: Banking, Deutsche Bank AG, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Malibu, CA

Mon Jun 17, 2013

WTAQ-AM Green Bay

Sales of existing, new homes continue to see sharp...

The Wisconsin Realtors Association says for the 23rd-straight month, home sales is on the rise - up 18.2% from a year ago.

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Related Topix: Real Estate, Marquette University

Lowell Sun

Pending home sales at highest point in at least nine years

There were more than 9,000 homes put under agreement in Massachusetts last month, the most for any month since the Massachusetts Association of Realtors began tracking data in 2004.

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Related Topix: Real Estate, Braintree, MA

Detroit Free Press

Metro Detroit home sale prices continue strong rebound in May

This March 5, 2013 photo shows a sale pending sign in the front yard of a home in Mt.

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Related Topix: Detroit, MI, Farmington Hills, MI, Real Estate

Bellingham Herald

World looks to Bernanke to clarify stimulus plans

When he takes questions this week after a Federal Reserve meeting, Chairman Ben Bernanke will confront investors' fear that rates are headed higher.

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Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

The Daily Breeze

U.S. homebuilder confidence soars to 7-year high

In this Monday, May 6, 2013 photo, construction is underway on the infrastructure of a multi-acre housing development in Zelienople, Pa.

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Related Topix: Zelienople, PA, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Star Tribune

Survey: Most US homebuilders optimistic about home sales for first time in 7 years

For the first time in seven years, most U.S. homebuilders are optimistic about home sales, a sign that construction could help drive stronger economic growth in coming months.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

KMIZ

Builders say housing is back

Is the housing recovery for real? It looks that way, as a key measure of home builder confidence crossed a major threshold Monday.

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Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Seattle Times

US homebuilder confidence soars to 7-year high

For the first time in seven years, most U.S. homebuilders are optimistic about home sales, a sign that construction could help drive stronger economic growth in coming months.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage

MarketWatch

Jeff Reeves Strength in Numbers: Consumer spending slowdown could kill 2013 rally

The markets have experienced a lot of volatility lately, but it has been mostly global in its roots.

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The Straits Times

New home sales up in May, buoyed by demand for suburban units

HOME buyers bought 1,455 new homes directly from property developers in May, 5.4 per cent more than they did in April.

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Sun Jun 16, 2013

Dallas Morning News

Existing home sales expected to show rise

Purchases of previously owned houses have risen to a 5 million annualized rate, the strongest since November 2009, according to a median forecast of economists.

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Related Topix: Home Selling, Home, Dallas, TX

Cincinnati.com

IN-DEPTH: Home prices still below 2007 levels

Someone on a pleasure boat spotted a body in the Ohio River at about 3 p.m. Sunday just down river from the Anderson Ferry Boat Co.

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Related Topix: Boone County, KY, Fort Mitchell, KY, Home Listing, Home, Latonia, KY, Florence, KY

The City Wire

NWA home sales rally continues

It took just four hours for Jim Long, a real estate agent with Crye-Leike In Bentonville to sell one of his listings in May. "I also had another listing go under contract in two days and through just five months of 2013 I have already surpassed my sales during all of last year," Long said.

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Related Topix: Real Estate, Bentonville, AR, Benton County, AR, Washington County, AR, Home Listing, Home

Daily News

Traders look to Federal Reserve for signs of tapering of key stimulus program

Trading will likely be muted for the first half of the week as investors hope to get a better impression of whether the U.S. Federal Reserve will cut back on one of its key stimulus measures soon and, if so, by how much.

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Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Canada, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Markets

Philly.com

Are there enough first-time buyers to sustain housing recovery?

If planning a wedding doesn't seem stressful enough, the couple are settling July 10 on their first house, a duplex in the 2200 block of West Thompson Street listed at $155,000.

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Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Real Estate, University of Pennsylvania

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