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The National Association of Realtors (NAR) this morning released its data on pending home sales in August. The index fell…
We recently became worried about the future dividends of the high-yielding mortgage REIT sector due to QE3’s focus being on $40…
The U.S. Census Bureau this morning released data on new single-family home sales for August. Economists had been expecting a…
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly report on mortgage applications this morning, noting an increase of 2.8% in…
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) reported this morning that U.S. home prices rose 0.2% month-over-month in July, following a…
The S&P/Case-Shiller home price index for July rose sharply again compared with the June index, and house prices were higher…
Lennar Corp. (NYSE: LEN) this morning reported fiscal third-quarter 2012 earnings per share (EPS) of $0.40 on revenue of $1.1…
The advantages of small-town living are well known to Americans — and not just because of Norman Rockwellesque clichés about values,…
KB Home (NYSE: KBH) this morning reported fiscal third-quarter 2013 earnings per share (EPS) of $0.04 on revenue of $424.5…
Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. (NYSE: HOV) may have been the hardest hit of all the publicly traded homebuilders since the housing…
The Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) is going big into home automation, and we would note that there is a…
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported this morning that existing home sales rose by 7.8% to a seasonally adjusted…
New housing starts in August rose to an annual seasonally adjusted rate of 750,000, an increase of 2.3% from the…
August Housing Starts hit 750,000 for a gain of +2.3% but the prior month was revised to -2.8% from -1.1%…
NEW YORK (24/7 Wall St./MarketWatch) — Since the peak in early 2006, the median price of a U.S. home is…
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