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Pending home sales fell slightly in February, but still remain well above levels set in the first half of 2011, the National Association of Realtors said Monday. The NAR Pending Home Sales Index is a forward-looking indicator of housing activity based on contract signings. The index hit a level of 96.5 in February, down 0.5% from a score of 97 in January. Still, it remains 9.2% above the February 2011 index score of 88.4. The data provided reflects the number of contracts signed, but not closings. “The spring home-buying season […]

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New home sales dipped 1.6% in February to 313,000 from January, but rose 11.6% from the same period a year earlier. The seasonally adjusted annual measure, released by the Commerce Department Friday, fell from a downwardly revised January estimate of 318,000 from 321,000. Analysts surveyed by Econoday expected a much better result of 325,000 for the February estimate. The actual nonadjusted total of new homes sold increased to 25,000 in February from 22,000 both a month and year earlier. The median and average sales prices, also unadjusted, rose 8.3% and […]

KB Home reported a loss of $45.4 million in the first quarter ended Feb. 29, a loss of 59 cents a share, narrowing its loss by 60% from a year earlier. But new orders declined, and investors punished the homebuilder’s stock, which was down about 9% in mid-afternoon trading. Net orders totaled 1,197 in the first quarter of 2012, down 8% from 1,302 net orders in the year-earlier quarter, as a 22% increase in the homebuilder’s Central region was more than offset by decreases in each of its three other […]

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The U.S. Supreme Court handed private property owners a victory yesterday with a decision allowing a couple to appeal an EPA ruling that their property contains a wetlands. The court’s decision is supported by the National Association of REALTORS®, which along with other organizations submitted a friend-of-the-court brief in the case. The ruling is on a narrow procedural issue: whether the owners have the right to appeal the EPA’s wetlands determination or wait until they first restore the property to its original state and then institute expensive and time-consuming monitoring activities, […]

States and municipalities may be inadvertently putting in roadblocks and costing taxpayers more when they approve policies that prolong the foreclosure process, such as by extending mediation services, Alfred Pollard, general counsel for the Federal Housing Finance Agency, testified at a House panel on Monday. Many of those foreclosures that get delayed fall in the books of one of the government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which the FHFA regulates. Fannie and Freddie have posted big losses the last few years from delinquent loans and already owe the Treasury […]

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Federal Housing Finance Agency general counsel Alfred Pollard warned that state and local laws meant to aid home owners at risk of foreclosure actually delay the process, hurting the housing finance system and neighborhoods. He cited such laws as in Washington, D.C., where mediation can prolong the foreclosure process by as many as 132 days, and in Worcester, Mass., where a $5,000 bond must be posted at the time of foreclosure to ensure the home will be maintained. Pollard said states and localities must “review the balance between home owner […]

New homebuilding is on the upswing in some markets, but the Sun Belt and the Midwest’s Rust Belt continue to struggle with distressed inventories delaying home starts, real estate analysts said. New home activity has “been ticking up steadily since spring of last year,” said David Crowe, chief economist for the National Association of Homebuilders. But he noted there are places where an overhang of distressed housing continues to weigh down demand for newly constructed single-family homes. “The inventory of new homes on a national basis is at a historic […]