Home building surges
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Housing construction in August jumped to its highest level in five months, a dose of encouraging news for the economy's expansion.
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Home builders' confidence rose in  February to its highest level since June 2006 as low mortgage  rates and sales incentives helped boost demand, the National  Association of Home Builders said on Thursday.
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NEWARK, Sept. 17  â The home builder Hovnanian Enterprises claimed âhuge successâ on Monday with its weekend sales blitz, which included six-figure discounts on homes being built or completed in 19 states.
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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 homebuilder beats expectations; shares bounce back.
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Sales of new U.S. homes dipped in October and inventories rose, but builders boosted prices by over $30,000 per unit after a sharp decline in home prices a month earlier, a government report showed Wednesday.
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Home loan borrowing continued to surge in July, the Council of Mortgage Lenders says.
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WASHINGTON - Construction spending surged in August to the highest level on record, while manufacturing grew at a slower pace in September, offering mixed signals about the economy's strength.    The Commerce Department reported Friday that the value of buildings put in place clocked in at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.02 trillion, a record high...
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By George Chamberlin , Daily Transcript Financial Correspondent. Rising residential real estate values have been a blessing for many households.
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When the housing market was booming, many rushed in to the residential real estate business. Now a growing number of agents are looking for other employment.
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Sales of new U.S. homes dipped in  October and inventories rose, but builders boosted prices by  over $30,000 per unit after a sharp decline in home prices a  month earlier, a government report showed Wednesday.
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Homeowners spent a new high of $138.1 billion on home improvement in 2003, an increase driven by affluent consumers, according to a new study by Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies.
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The realty space is being disrupted.
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Shares of home builders soared on Monday as a frenzy of short sellers bought stock to cover their positions, giving the overall housing stock index its greatest one-day gain in about five years.
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U.S. home builder optimism grew in October to its strongest level in 2004 on low mortgage rates and heavy traffic of potential buyers, rebounding from a decline in September, an industry report said on Monday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The US real-estate boom, coupled with low interest rates, has given mortgage companies a surge of new business.
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WASHINGTON - Sales of existing US homes unexpectedly surged 3.1 percent in September on low mortgage rates, and would have been even brisker had hurricanes not hit the South, a trade association said Monday.