Having ticked down 2.7 percent in March, the seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. dropped another 2.4 percent in April to an annual rate of 5.61 million sales, which was down 5.9 percent on a year-over-year, the ninth straight month with a year-over-year decline, and the... Read More »

Having dropped 7.2 percent in February, the seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. ticked down another 2.7 percent in March to an annual rate of 5.77 million sales and was down 4.5 percent on a year-over-year basis, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and... Read More »

Having ticked up 6.7 percent in January, the seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. dropped 7.2 percent in February to an annual rate of 6.02 million sales and was down 2.4 percent on a year-over-year basis, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and marking... Read More »

Having dropped 4.6 percent in December, the seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. increased 6.7 percent in January to an annual rate of 6.50 million sales, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), but was down 2.3 percent on a year-over-year basis, marking the sixth... Read More »

Having ticked up 1.9 percent in November, the seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. dropped 4.6 percent in December to an annual rate of 6.18 million sales, which was 7.1 percent lower than the year before and the fifth straight month with a year-over-year decline, according... Read More »

Having inched up 0.8 percent in October, the seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. ticked up 1.9 percent in November to an annual rate of 6.46 million sales, which was 2.0 percent lower than at the same time last year and the fourth straight month with... Read More »

Having ticked down 3 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis and 6 percent in the absolute, mortgage loan application volumes to purchase a home in the U.S. were down 9 percent on a year-over-year basis last week with refinancing activity down 42 percent, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.... Read More »

Having dropped 2.3 percent in September, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, a seasonally adjusted index for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, ticked up 7.5 percent in October to 125.2. On a year-over-year basis, however, the index was down 1.4 percent, closed sales... Read More »

Having ascended 7.0 percent in September, the seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. inched up 0.8 percent in October to an annual rate of 6.34 million sales. But sales were down 5.8 percent on a year-over-year basis, representing the third straight month of year-over-year declines, the... Read More »

Having dropped 2.0 percent in August, the seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. rose 7.0 percent in September to an annual rate of 6.29 million sales. That being said, sales were down on a year-over-year basis for the second month in a row, dropping 2.3 percent... Read More »