Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes rose one point to 47 in April from a downwardly revised March reading of 46 on the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). ...
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Home prices continued to show solid growth in most of the country due to limited inventory conditions, but rising prices and severe winter weather caused existing-home sales to slip in February, according to the National Association of ...
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Nationwide housing starts were virtually unchanged in February,inching down.2%to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 907,000 units,according to newly released data from the U.S.Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S.Census ...
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Sales of newly built, single-family homes rose 9.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 468,000 units in January from an upwardly revised pace of 427,000 units in the previous month, according to data released by the U.S. Department of ...
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Markets in 58 out of the approximately 350 metro areas nationwide returned to or exceeded their last normal levels of economic and housing activity, according to the National Association of Home Builders/First American Leading Markets Index ...
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Oil futures settled higher Monday on support from firm US equities, geopolitical tensions and an easing of Libyan oil output, but the upside was limited by weak Chinese and eurozone data. NYMEX April crude settled 62 cents higher at ...
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The increase brought spending to an annual $930.5 billion annual rate, after a revised 0.8% rise the prior month. Spending on private residential construction increased 2.6% in December to an annual pace of $325.6 billion, the highest ...
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Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes fell one point to 56 in January from a revised December reading of 57 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). "Following an ...
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Sales of newly built, single-family homes declined 2.1% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 464,000 units in November 2013 from an upwardly revised strong pace of 474,000 units in the previous month, according to data released by the ...
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Home prices in 20 major U.S. cities rose in October by the most in 20 years, according to Standard & Poor's. S&P's Case-Shiller index said property prices rose 13.6% from October 2012 in the 20 cities, the most since February 2006, after ...
The Chinese mainland has ranked 2nd on a list of the 10 hottest housing markets in the world, according to Fortune magazine's website. Home prices n the Chinese mainland rose 21.6% in the past year. Dubai ranked 1st, with home prices ...
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Markets in 54 out of the approximately 350 metro areas nationwide returned to or exceeded their last normal levels of economic and housing activity, according to the National Association of Home Builders/First American Leading Markets ...
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The average home prices in 100 major cities in China rose 0.68% in Novermber from October to RMB10758 per sq m, according to a natioingl property price index released by the China Index Academy Sunday. This marked the 18th consecutive ...
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Strengthening house prices and increased interest rates in metros across the country contributed to lower housing affordability in the third quarter, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity ...
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China's central bank said on Tuesday that it will continue its hands-off stance on the money market, as it maintains a "stable" monetary policy that facilitates the nation's essential structural reforms. The central bank "will neither ...
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