There's more hiring, which means more confidence, more home buying, more investment, et cetera, et cetera.
Her first book, Suzanne Whang's Guide to Happy Home Buying, will be published later this year.
Even as we end the seasonally strong home buying period, the statistics are positive.
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Even that longtime laggard, apartments, is surging as demand rises, because mortgage payments are climbing, discouraging home buying.
The market overlooked the fact that a strong economy will produce more home buying and more mortgage origination.
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Even with home buying slowing, the home improvement market is expected to grow 4% to 5% annually through 2010.
The "professional housewife" is also working on a second book (on home buying).
The uptick can be chalked up to the fact that April marks the beginning of the high season for home buying.
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Continued interest-rate hikes and slowing home buying should have, at most, a marginal effect on 2006 because the economy's underlying strength likely won't flag.
Since mortgage pre-approval has grown to be so integral to the home buying process, it makes sense that lenders would rigorously address this void.
The NAR's chief economist warned that a pause in home buying is likely to persist through September despite rock-bottom mortgage rates and high affordability.
In 2007, celebrity power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie purchased this 1800s mansion in New Orleans, sparking a wave of high-profile home buying in the city.
After 18 months of credit tightening and new home buying restrictions, we may be at the end of the cycle, and they are likely to be much different.
However low interest rates and home prices are instigating an increase in home buying in recent months, according to results from their Pending Home Sales Index released Thursday.
He attributed the change to an improved economy, with the creation of entry-level jobs triggering home buying by first time homebuyers backed by support from federal housing programs.
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Total inventory of previously-owned homes increased 1.6% from February to 1.93 million homes for sale, as sellers began listing their homes in anticipation of the spring home buying season.
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Assorted tax cuts on income and home buying could help, but they would be equally tough to pass and unlikely to have much impact in such a condensed time frame.
Finally, the U.S. Commerce Department announced this week that new home sales rose 4.4 percent in November from October, indicating the fastest pace of home buying in almost 2 years.
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The measures, including home buying curbs and differentiated mortgage policies, will remain, Liu Haisheng, director of the Shanghai Housing Support and Building Administration Bureau, told a municipal conference held Wednesday.
Freddie Mac was started in 1970 to expand the market for American home buying by purchasing mortgages from lenders and repackaging them as mortgaged-backed securities to create a secondary mortgage market.
Among all minorities, homeownership in the U.S. rose slightly over the past decade to 48 percent from 47.4 percent, boosted by more home buying among the younger and larger Hispanic population.
So if these long-term trends continue, women, who are already the majority of car buyers, will grow in consumer influence in every major area: from health care to home buying, from technology to investment planning.
But the idea that selling abroad creates jobs at home and buying abroad destroys jobs at home is an old mercantilist fallacy that Adam Smith handily refuted more than 200 years ago.
Rising interest rates have ended the home-buying boom and made renting apartments much more appealing.
Those costs aren't necessarily poised to move lower as the home-buying market slumps, according to Matus.
In addition, German banks typically require large down payments, depressing home-buying in favor of renting.
They've cut expenses by forgoing vacations, having meals at home and buying clothes only during sales.
Many builders reported less traffic by prospective customers before the critical spring home-buying season begins.
Passing a home buyers' bill of rights that would protect and educate consumers and provide home-buying help.
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