U.S. pending home sales hint at market bottom

By Nick Olivari
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. new home sales likely rose slightly in March though tight lending standards and concerns by purchasers on job security are keeping gains capped, economists said.
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U.S. Economy: Existing Home Sales Hover Near Four-Month Average
By Courtney Schlisserman and Bob Willis
April 23 (Bloomberg) — Sales of existing U.S. homes in March stayed near a four-month average, and prices rose from February, a sign the housing recession has stopped getting worse.
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Mortgage Rates in U.S. Decline to Record Low of 4.78% (Update4)

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By Brian Louis
April 2 (Bloomberg) — Fixed mortgage rates in the U.S. fell to a [...]

Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:15pm EDT
By Ed Stoddard
CLEBURNE, Texas (Reuters) - Small-town Texan realtor Rick Cumins is going to see a paycheck in April — his first since December.
“I’ve got two pending closings in April, one for a property worth $55,000, the other for $68,000. They’ll pay the rent,” he told Reuters in his modest [...]

By Julie Haviv
Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:00am EDT
NEW YORK, March 25 (Reuters) - U.S. mortgage applications jumped last week as record low interest rates spurred a surge in demand for home refinancing loans, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.     Read more…

Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:32am EDT
By Julie Haviv
NEW YORK (Reuters) - After six years of renting in San Francisco, Kate Wilusz jumped at the chance to swap her tiny apartment for a roomy four-bedroom Victorian home. But she is paying a mortgage instead of rent — and coming out even.
“I could not be more thrilled,” [...]

U.S. home sales climb at fastest pace in 10 months
Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:54am EDT

By Lucia Mutikani
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New orders for long-lasting U.S. made goods rose in February for the first time in seven months and new home sales rebounded, government reports showed on Wednesday, suggesting the economic downturn might be easing [...]

Median price registers first rise since April ‘08
By Roger Showley (Contact) Union-Tribune Staff Writer
2:00 a.m. March 17, 2009

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A slight increase in home prices in February, along with improvement in other indicators, offered a hint of a stabilizing, if not [...]

U.S. January pending home sales drop 7.7 percent
Tue Mar 3, 2009 10:16am EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pending sales of existing U.S. homes fell sharply in January, with the index dropping to a record low, according to a report on Tuesday that showed the deteriorating [...]