Here are a few national real estate-related stories that came across my screen this week…
- from Housingwire: Rick Sharga: Is this the end of the housing recovery? — Maybe it wasn’t the snow after all
- from Inman News: The conventional wisdom on why home sales have stalled is wrong
- from The Wall Street Journal: U.S. Pending Home Sales Rise 3.4% in March
- from Inman News: NAR: Pending home sales increase for first time in 9 months
- from Housingwire: Wall Street: Home price appreciation still expected to hit 7% — And other housing insights from Morgan Stanley and Barclays
- from FreddieMac: Fixed Mortgage Rates Tick Up
- from The Chicago Tribune: U.S. mortgage market index hits lowest since December 2000: MBA
- from The New York Times: Short Sales on the Decline
- from The Washington Post: Mortgages are easier to obtain than many prospective home buyers might expect
- from Forbes: The Fastest-Growing Industries Over The Last Year – Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers Top List
- from CNNMoney: One in three Americans are spending too much on rent
- from Corelogic: CoreLogic Reports 48,000 Completed Foreclosures in March — Foreclosure inventory down 37 percent nationally from a year ago
