Foreclosures Hit Record High in 2010 A total of 3.83 million foreclosure filings were reported on a record high 2.87 million properties in 2010, up 2 percent from 2009 and an increase of 23 percent from 2008, according to a year-end study from RealtyTrac, an online marketer of foreclosure properties. The report concludes that 2.33 [...]

Existing-Home Sales Rate for December: 5.28 million This is a seasonally adjusted annual rate, which is the actual rate of sales for the month, multiplied by 12 and adjusted for seasonal sales differences. By Lawrence Yun | March 2011 Pending Home Sales Index For December: 93.7 This index measures ­housing contract activity. An index of [...]

Sunnier Skies Are Likely on the Way Thanks to population growth, the number of home owning households in our country normally rises by about 1 million each year. But economic conditions will sometimes throw a hurdle in the way of that. By Lawrence Yun | March 2011 We faced a big hurdle in the early [...]