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Housing affordability puts more seasonal spring in home buyers’ step

As interest rates hover around record low levels and home prices bounce along the bottom, incomes are also cooperating to make housing more affordable than ever. Of course, all those favorable affordability conditions don’t amount to a hill of beans [...]

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‘Turnaround Towns’ leading housing market to recovery

Seven housing markets hit hardest by foreclosure fallout in Florida and three markets in also hard-hit California are among the top 25 markets spearheading the national housing recovery. Unexpected

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Fiserv echoes growing sentiment: ‘Housing sector hit bottom last year’

FISERV – After years of large declines, the housing market is showing signs of stabilization. In the fourth quarter of 2011, home prices in 70 markets, representing 18 percent

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Zillow: ‘It’s time to start shopping’

In the latest report pointing to a housing recovery, Zillow says a 0.5 percent month-to-month rise in it's Home Value Index (ZHVI) marks the largest monthly increase since

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Infographic: 2012 shaping up as good time to buy

It's buying time again. A host of factors point to 2012 as a good time to buy a home. Interest rates are low The average interest rate on 30-year conforming fixed

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Home sellers lower prices to compete, bidding wars ensue, recovery heats up

We recently gave Chinese astrology some mystical credit for the Year of the Dragon's positive impact on the 2012 real estate market. Sellers, however, don't really need to read

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FHFA: First 12-month home price increase since July 2006

FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY – U.S. house prices rose 0.3 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from January to February, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s monthly

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NAR: ‘Recovery is happening,’ March sales, prices rise

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS - Existing-home sales dipped in March, but continued to outpace last year's levels. At the same time, inventory tightened and home prices showed further

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California median home price posts first year-to-year increase in 16 months

CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS – California home sales declined in March from February's pace, while the median home price snapped a 16-month annual price decline and posted

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Housing takes upbeat swing into spring

Housing's spring swing looks more and more like it isn't just a fling. On average nationwide, prices and sales are up, inventories are down and more and more markets

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Infographic: Why some homes sell faster

Nationwide, more indicators point to a market on the verge of recovery, but deals aren't done until escrow closes. Home inspection finds, underwriting fails and early onset buyer's remorse

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Burns Consulting: Lagging indicators may have cost home buyers bottom-market deals

If you've been waiting for the housing market to hit bottom, you may have waited too long. John Burns Consulting reported this week, buyers seeking the greatest bottom market

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Economy, stock market get real estate boost

No wonder the stock market is going ape. The housing market isn't such a jungle any more. Wednesday, March 14, 2012, the day after Apple helped NASDAQ nose above the

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Sellers embrace Year of the 2012 Dragon, price homes to sell

The Year 2012 is preordained to be a historic year -- for better or for worse -- and there's already something strange in the neighborhood. A recent survey says

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San Jose, CA housing market recovering as spring market heats up

SHASHANK SHEKHAR - The Spring 2012 housing market for Sans Jose and Santa Clara County appears to be off to a strong start according to real time market

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SF Bay Area housing sales highest in five years

DQ NEWS - Bay Area home sales rose last month to the highest level for the month of January in five years, boosted by lower prices, ultra-low mortgage

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Silicon Valley’s ‘Facebook Factor’

STEFAN WALKER - More talk about Facebook than football at a recent Super Bowl party indicates the upcoming Facebook IPO has the potential for far-reaching impact on Silicon

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Light at the end of the housing crisis tunnel not shining in the Midwest

With the Midwest hardest hit by the housing crisis, home value declines elsewhere appear to be easing. The Northeast appears nearest to bottoming out, but most markets remain

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Meltdown nears end in mashup forecast of mixed hope for 2012 national housing market

A mashup of several market indices puts the housing recovery start somewhere between 2012 and 2013 thanks, in part, to growing consumer confidence in the economy. • Clear Capital's

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Retail holiday workers find little joy in housing costs

Christmas just wouldn't be the Christmas without the workers you love, but many workers essential to the holiday shopping season can't afford to buy a home where they

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