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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of April 11, 2011 MARKET RECAP Are delinquency and foreclosure rates really falling? Based on this past week's data releases, it appears they are. Hope Now, an alliance of mortgage servicers and home-retention counselors, reports that the number...
04/18/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of April 4, 2011 MARKET RECAP The monthly S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index always attracts a good deal of media attention. This month's edition was no different. In fact, because of a strong pessimistic bias, it probably drew more attention tha...
04/18/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of March 28, 2011 MARKET RECAP Bearish pundits – those chatterers who seek notoriety by accentuating the negative – had reason to strut this past week because the news on housing was, for the most part, to their liking. Existing sales for Februa...
03/27/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of March 14, 2011 MARKET RECAP Some people just can't help themselves; that is, they can't help but see the glass as half empty. RealtyTrac is finding itself slotted into that category more often than not. For instance, RealtyTrac reported that ...
03/14/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of March 7, 2011 MARKET RECAP There wasn't much new to report on housing this week, which is probably a good thing. Most of the news has been tepid at best lately, making it seem as though we are stuck in some sort of holding pattern. The pendin...
03/06/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of February 28, 2011 MARKET RECAP Getting a read on the direction of housing is always tough, especially in the winter. This winter has been exceptionally difficult, given that large swaths of the country have been either buried in snow or froze...
02/28/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of February 14, 2011 MARKET RECAP When housing-sector pundits spoke last week, they spoke mostly about foreclosures and pricing. RealtyTrac reported that lenders repossessed over 78,000 properties in January, down 11 percent from a year ago, but...
02/14/2011
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MARKET RECAP After getting off to a rough start in 2011, the data on housing has continued to turn for the better. This past week, Clear Capital's home price index showed that prices stopped declining in early January and increased for the first time since August. The change in prices, especially...
02/06/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of January 31, 2011 MARKET RECAP We hope we see marked improvement in the home-builder sentiment index on its next release, because the news on new home sales in December was better than just about anyone expected, jumping 18 percent to an annual u...
02/01/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of January 24, 2011 MARKET RECAP The economic news stumbled out of the gate this week when the Commerce Department reported that homebuilders began work on the second fewest number of homes in more than fifty years in 2010, breaking ground on on...
01/22/2011