Posts with tag pending home sales index

The housing market is making strides in the right direction, but the summit is still a ways to go. Pending home sales bounced back with double-digit growth in October, a vast improvement since bottoming out in June. Pending home sales rose 10.4 percent to 89.3 based on contracts signed in October, up from 80.9 in... Continue Reading »

August was a surprisingly busy month for homebuyers. Pending home sales, which count the number of buyers who signed contracts for homes, increased 4.3 percent in August for the second consecutive month, according to the National Association of Realtors. But even with the rise, that level is 20 percent below the same... Continue Reading »

Looking to buy a home? You probably didn't have a lot of competition last January. The number of people who signed contracts to buy homes shrank as cold weather and a slack economy kept many potential buyers home, according to the Pending Homes Sales Index, created by the National Association of Realtors. The Pending Home... Continue Reading »