Despite the negative commentary offered in the report, Teresa Chen of Barclays Capital argues that the broad trend for home prices remains on an upward path.
He attests that to the real estate downturn and downward trend in home values, as well as an increasing interest in green and energy-efficient homes.
We have started to see a bit of a decoupling of the US economy from its European counterpart, as the data trend at home has been a positive one.
Finally, the 2012 forecast showed each of the areas continuing the trend of improving home values, while leading the country in gains.
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The next possible beneficiary of this trend is Taylor Morrison Home Corp.
This forecast is in line with the trend in the Zillow Home Value Index reported in the Q3 Zillow Real Estate Market Report.
The trend towards living at home is growing and, while more common amongst mature students, it is also increasing amongst school-leavers, with 35% of those under-21 applying to universities within 25 miles.
That was 14% more than in October last year and reinforces the trend which has seen home sales rise by 7% in the first 10 months of the year, compared to the same period last year.
That trend is evident in the home of 40-year-old Scott Boedy, a neighborhood service representative for a cable company.
Along the East Coast, expect home sales to trend downward in coming months, as sellers take their damaged digs off the market and buyers hold off on purchases.
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The need to study at cram schools in the evening, the tendency for students to unwind at 24-hour convenience stores on their way home and the lure of computer games at home means the trend is likely to worsen.
It's not just that there a lot more homes now--housing stock has actually been growing much faster than the population over the past couple of decades--but on top of the trend to fewer people per home, the average home's square footage has ballooned by 30%.
The fashion industry may not have noticed, but these statistics have brought about a new fashion trend: work-at-home wear.
If you think rapidly rising home prices is a good trend, you might want to think again.
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The shortage of available homes for sale has become a major trend in advance of the busy spring home shopping season.
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Sport Industry Group's Drew Barrand told CNN the announcement underlines a wider trend of sport broadcasting increasingly finding a home on digital platforms.
The economic climate at home has encouraged the international trend--and even with that climate changing, some experts see the buying abroad trend continuing.
While most of the Dow Jones industrial average was trading in negative territory Monday, home improvement retailer Home Depot was bucking the trend.
The company is attempting to capitalize on the growing trend of using human resources closer to home by providing a professional and dedicated project manager via a cloud based platform to mix and match staffing requirements.
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And the real question is whether there is a trend, and whether sharp political divisions at home and the problems they leave unsolved undermine America's quest to find its rightful place in a changing world.
For a while birth rates were lower in countries where lots of women worked outside the home, but more recently that trend has been reversed: higher fertility and higher employment rates for women go together.
Ms. Davda says there is a trend in India toward out-of-home consumption and a steady shift in consumer preferences, with coffee changing from a beverage that was consumed mostly in South India to one sipped nationwide.
Continuing on a recent positive trend, as of June 2012, pending home sales in the U.S., on average, increased by 9.5% (seasonally adjusted) and 8.4% (not seasonally adjusted) respectively on a year-over-year basis with increases experienced across all four regions, with the slight exception of the West on a seasonally adjusted annual rate basis, of the country.
Batters are hitting a record number of home runs this year, continuing a trend that began in 1994.
The newfound popularity of craft items, sewing machines, canning kits, home appliances and home entertainment items all speak to this trend.
Japanet Takata, which specialises in home electronics, has seized on another trend.
Marsh doesn't have a rating on the company, but he says Imax is an important part of the trend to make movies a special, outside the home experience.
England seeks to buck that trend by making it easier for tech firms at home and on the continent to raise cash and trade publically on their own side of the pond.
It is one of several means used to create a home network -- a hot technology trend as more homes include multiple PCs and users who want to be online at the same time and also have the ability to share files, printers and other peripherals.
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