As prices rise, homebuilding surges
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NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH -- By its own modest standards, Massachusetts is experiencing a homebuilding boom. Through the first nine months of 2004, the state issued permits for more than 15,000 units of new housing, up about 10 percent from the same period a year ago. If the current pace continues, Massachusetts would build more housing this year than it has in ...
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U.S. housing starts unexpectedly rose 4.7 percent last month to a nearly 21-year high as single-family housing starts shot up to a record, a Commerce Department report showed on Wednesday.
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Sales of new homes rose 16.2 percent in April, the sharpest climb in 14 years as builders slashed prices a record 11 percent, a government report showed on Thursday, signaling stabilization in the housing sector.
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Applications for home mortgages jumped to their highest level in nearly four years as low interest rates led more homeowners to seek refinancing, according to data from an industry group on Wednesday.
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The number of homes put up for sale surged in May as sellers tried to beat the launch of HIPs.
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Over the last 40 years, home prices have grown at a rate far exceeding wages.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Construction of new homes recovered in July, as US homebuilders started homes at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.978 million, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.
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Business & money: Mortgage lending rose to record levels last month as borrowers reacted to further interest rate rises.
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Landlords are enjoying booming times these days as more people are choosing to rent.
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Get ready for new-home prices and remodeling costs to jump even higher because of unexpected continuing demand in America, also because of the construction explosion in China, record worldwide oil prices and, now, a triple play of devastating hurricanes.
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Bee Staff Writer. The housing market throttled back in parts of California last month, but it sped ahead of last year&#39;s pace here, with prices reaching new highs across the capital region.
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Surging energy costs drove U.S.  consumer prices up by a hefty and larger-than-expected 0.6  percent last month, the biggest jump since May, a government  report showed on Wednesday.
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During the real estate boom, home prices in the Sun Valley area spiked almost as high as the peak of nearby Bald Mountain. The median home price is now about as high as San Francisco's.
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Sales of new homes rose 16.2 percent  in April, the sharpest climb in fourteen years, while prices  fell a record 11 percent, according to a government report on  Thursday that showed home builders taking extraordinary steps  to move houses.
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Surging energy costs drove U.S. consumer prices up by a hefty and larger-than-expected 0.6 percent last month, the biggest jump since May, a government report showed on Wednesday.
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The onslaught of takeovers has helped to lift prices of most REIT shares.
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U.S. producer prices recorded their largest gain in more than three decades in November, while the nation's pace of home building also rose for the month in a sign of health for the housing sector.