US pending home sales dipped in December as inventory remained tight, but the upward trend in the housing market continued, the National Association of Realtors said Monday. The NAR’s pending home sales index, an indicator of future sales, fell 4.3 percent to 101.7 in December, down from a 106.3 reading…
US existing home sales picked up in October despite the market in the northeast being shut down in the last days of the month by Hurricane Sandy, a realtors group said Monday. Existing home sales rose 2.1 percent over September, hitting an annual pace of 4.79 million units, pulled up…
US new-home sales rebounded in April after falling the prior month, official data showed Wednesday in mounting early signs of recovery in the collapsed housing market. The Commerce Department reported new-home sales at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 343,000, an increase of 3.3 percent from the upwardly revised March…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sales of previously owned U.S. homes plunged in February and prices hit their lowest level in nearly nine years, implying a housing market recovery was still a long way off. The National Association of Realtors said on Monday sales fell 9.6 percent month over month to an…