U.S. Home Market Stays Frigid
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January starts data throw cold water on hopes for recovery.
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U.S. consumers still face sharply higher home heating bills this winter, but prices will be somewhat lower than earlier feared due to milder weather and easing prices, the government said on Tuesday.
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Mild weather was expected to linger in  most of the United States until at least early January,  continuing a prolonged spell of balmy conditions that has cut  deeply into heating demand, government and private forecasters  said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON -- US home prices continued to rise in the second quarter but showed the biggest slowdown in three decades, federal regulators reported .
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Sales of new homes rose to an all-time high in 2004, the fourth straight annual record. But activity in December barely budged after a big drop the previous month, suggesting the nation's red-hot housing market may finally be cooling.
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No matter what the statistics say, home values across much of Florida, California and the Northeast are falling.
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Investor's Business Daily - Single-family prices are up 3% nationally, year over year, but that&#39;s the weakest gain in a decade, researcher Global Insight said. The percentage of homes it deems &quot;overvalued&quot; fell to 14% in Q1 from 17% in Q4. Hot markets like California, Florida, New York and New England saw the broadest declines, as did weak areas of the industrial Midwest. Texas was home to the most &quot;undervalued&quot; markets.
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Pending sales of existing U.S. homes  fell 1.7 percent in October but held above the low hit in July,  suggesting the housing market is stabilizing, a real estate  trade association said on Monday.
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Weakness in the U.S. housing market showed no signs of abating through the end of 2006 as sales slid in 40 states and prices dropped in metro regions with major price gains in recent years, a real estate trade association said on Thursday.
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Retail sales rose less than forecast in February as cold weather kept shoppers home.
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The U.S. winter will be longer and slightly colder than the last, private forecasters say, spelling a spike in heating oil and natural gas demand even as high oil prices drive up the cost of heating.
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U.S. housing industry economists on  Monday cautioned that rapid house price gains in some areas of  the country may not be sustainable.
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Oil prices held around $41 a barrel on  Tuesday as colder weather in the U.S. brought temperatures more  into line with seasonal norms, spurring heating oil buying.
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High-flying oil prices held firm  Monday as a weekend blizzard in the U.S. Northeast strained  tight heating oil stocks.
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U.S. retail sales rose a sluggish  0.1 percent in February amid unusually cold weather and despite  firm auto sales, government data showed on Tuesday, raising  expectations of an interest rate cut later this year.
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Home ownership will remain out of reach for millions of Americans, despite slumping house prices, unless low-income wages grow faster, according to a national housing study released Monday.
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Sales of new U.S. homes again defied  predictions of a slowdown in May and rose 4.6 percent, but  median sales prices fell and the U.S. Northeast experienced its  slowest sales tempo in nearly two years, according to a  government report on Monday.