U.S. realtors see temporary decline in home prices
560964
U.S. home sales will be a good deal   weaker this year than earlier forecast and prices are likely to   fall below year-ago levels temporarily as buyers stay on the   sidelines, a realtors group said on Thursday.
29924
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.
43433
Homeowners across America were more likely to report declines in their home values than at any time since 1992, according to the The Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers for August released on Friday.
179175
The pace of existing home sales in the United States was off slightly in May to a 5.99 million-unit annual rate, the National Association of Realtors said in a report on Monday that showed continued weakness in the housing sector.
274264
Soaring U.S. home values in the first five years of this decade have left homeowners feeling flush, but housings costs also have risen sharply, cutting into stagnant incomes, Census Bureau data show.
71473
Resales of U.S. homes fell 2.7  percent in August, decreasing more than expected as mortgage  interest rates picked up in the early summer, a trade  association report showed on Friday.
613849
The pace of existing home sales in the United States fell by 2.2 percent in December to a slower-than-expected 4.89 million-unit annual rate, the National Association of Realtors said in a report on Thursday.
40216
Prices for single-family homes fell in more than half of the nationâs biggest metropolitan areas in the last three months of 2006.
20002
The housing market, in its deepest rut since the early 1990s, showed little sign of stabilization in November, and economists expect conditions to worsen in the near term.
201226
Concern about interest rate hikes, the drop in new home construction, and tighter business inventories contributed to the decline.
412876
The pace of existing home sales in   the United States fell for a fifth straight month in August and   prices dropped from year-ago levels for the first time in more   than 10 years, a realtors group said on Monday.
587443
U.S. housing industry economists on Monday cautioned that rapid house price gains in some areas of the country may not be sustainable.
434842
Price drops and declining sales in the Massachusetts housing market moderated in October, two housing reports showed yesterday, suggesting that the monthslong slump in the real estate market may be nearing its end.
314736
A January decline of 16.6 percent suggests some weakness in the real estate market.
509648
The pace of sales of existing homes  in the United States fell 1.3 percent in June to their slowest  pace since January, the National Association of Realtors said  on Tuesday.
663908
Forecasters expect the median price of  U.S. homes to fall between 1 percent and 2 percent this year in  what would be the first such decline since 1950, when federal  agencies began tracking such statistics, the New York Times  reported on Sunday.
675962
U.S. home sales and prices will fall  further in 2007 than earlier expected, the leading realty trade  association predicted on Wednesday.