Topic: Housing Market

DesertSun Articles

  1. Riverside County home prices jump, sales dip in April

    • May 15, 2012
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    '' With a continuing improving economy and interest rates declining to new record lows in recent weeks, we should see a steady improvement in the housing market through the end...

  2. Banks: Housing market healing

    • Apr 14, 2012
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    NEW YORK -- Earnings reports from two major banks Friday painted a picture of a healing housing market, with more... A healthier housing market is welcome news. Housing has been the...

  3. Foreclosure activity falls

    • Apr 18, 2012
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    Foreclosure activity plummeted in March across the Coachella Valley, continuing a nearly year-long trend and raising hopes about the trajectory of the local housing market....

  4. Builders bet on housing growth

    • Mar 21, 2012
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    U.S. builders are betting that the housing market ... Economists cautioned that construction levels remain depressed and the housing market ... Betting on better U.S. housing market PERMITS...

  5. Sales pointing to better year for housing market

    • Feb 23, 2012
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    WASHINGTON -- The housing market ... At last month's sales pace, it would take more than six months to clear those homes, consistent with a healthy housing market. Fewer homes on...

  6. L.A. safer 20 years after 1992 riots, many say

    • Apr 15, 2012
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    But the loss of optimism about the city's direction is driven largely by the still-struggling economy and housing market and not by concerns about race, crime or gangs,...

  7. Best winter for resales in 5 years

    • Mar 22, 2012
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    That's been rare since the housing market ... in the housing market ... There have been other signs of improvement in the depressed housing market. Homebuilders have grown more confident...

  8. Valley's housing market on mend

    • Jan 27, 2012
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    Experts say recent home sales figures show the Coachella Valley's housing market has... shows the housing market is finally showing signs of life. Valley home prices rose 1.8...

  9. Treasury mortgage bond sale nets $25 billion

    • Mar 20, 2012
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    '' This program helped support the housing market during a critical moment... before the housing market collapse. Fannie and Freddie have paid the government about $36 billion...

  10. Palm Springs-area developers try to 'pick up pieces' of housing projects left behind after economic downturn

    • Mar 26, 2012
    • DESERTSUN

    Safren's five models are not the only never-occupied'' new'' houses abandoned in the Coachella Valley when the housing market ... John Young, an agent with Keller Williams and past president of the California Desert Association of Realtors, says the Coachella Valley housing market ...