Posts with tag spring home buying

By Diana Olick Like everything else in the spring, housing supply is supposed to grow. That's because warmer weather and the convenience for families to move during the summer make spring the busiest homebuying season historically. That is not the case this year. Home sales have been "stuck," according to Lawrence Yun,... Continue Reading »

By Diana Olick The U.S. housing market will see no surge at the start of spring, as fewer buyers signed contracts to purchase existing homes in February. An industry index of so-called pending home sales fell 0.4 percent from January but is up 8.4 percent from February of 2012. While the number of for-sale listings... Continue Reading »

By Jeff Brown As we mentioned the other day, conditions are looking up for homeowners who want to sell. That implies, of course, that things must be good for buyers, too. In fact, a survey from Fannie Mae indicates that more and more potential buyers are getting ready to move off the sidelines. As people see reports of... Continue Reading »

By Josh Garskof @Money Budgeting for a large remodeling project presents a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem: You won't have a feel for the cost until you get bids from contractors. But unless you give pros a ballpark figure from the start, they'll have to guess at what to include in their bids -- and they'll come back to... Continue Reading »

WASHINGTON -- Sales of new homes dipped in January but the final quarter of 2011 was stronger than first estimated. The Commerce Department said Friday that new-home sales fell 0.9 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 321,000 homes. That followed four straight months of gains in which home sales rose... Continue Reading »