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If anyone needs hard evidence that the real estate market cycle is flattening out and turning around, check out the latest pending home sales index numbers.

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Real Estate Outlook: Pending Sales Jump

When you’re in a long, slow recovery period in real estate, even the slightest hint of good news can be significant.

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Real Estate Outlook: Prices Up In Certain Markets

With home sales and prices down and unsold inventory up in many areas, the real estate market could use a jolt of good news — and Congress just provided it.

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Real Estate Outlook: Housing Bill Approved

If you want an independent, authoritative guide to where the economy is heading, check out the composite quarterly forecast of the members of the National Association of Business Economics.

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Real Estate Outlook: No Recession In Sight

With all the stock market jitters about Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the U.S. mortgage system, you might have the impression that the real estate market is on the edge of some sort of cliff.

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Real Estate Outlook: New Home Loan Applications Up

When it comes to today’s marketplace, take your pick: You can focus on the economy’s bright spots — mortgage rates and rising sales in scattered local markets — are tops on the list at the moment.

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Real Estate Outlook: Inflation to Lessen

They’re not overwhelming yet, but definite signs of improvement continue to pop up in real estate around the country.

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Real Estate Outlook: Resales Up, Rate Dip

The national economy keeps plodding along, but even that slow pace is better than what the experts predicted last year — that we’d be knee-deep into a serious recession by now.

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Real Estate Outlook: Inflation and Mortgage Rates

There’s more evidence that buyers who’d been sitting on the sidelines are now jumping into the housing market: The Mortgage Bankers Association of America reports that in its national survey last week, applications for new, conventional loans to buy houses jumped by eleven percent — and applications for FHA insured mortgages were up by seventeen percent!

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Real Estate Outlook: Buyers Off the Sidelines

The single most accurate forecast tool for housing activity is the “Pending Home Sale Index” compiled by the National Association of Realtors.

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Real Estate Outlook: Pending Home Sales Rise in April

Recession or no recession? That’s a key question for real estate because any sort of deep or prolonged recession would choke off all hopes of a housing recovery anytime soon.

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Real Estate Outlook: Positive GDP Growth Rate

Here’s a perspective that we don’t get that often: The inside real estate forecasts of some of the top executives of America’s biggest banks.

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Real Estate Outlook: Forecasts from Top Bank Execs

Don’t break out the champagne glasses quite yet, but there are more economic signs this week that the worst is over for the three year real estate correction cycle.

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Real Estate Outlook: Worst is Over

Despite all the grim news about gas prices and recession, there are more than a few encouraging signs popping up in the national economy that aren’t getting a lot of attention.

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Real Estate Outlook: Encouraging News

Here’s how a top mortgage industry economist sees conditions in the market at the moment: It’s all kind of “flat”, says Orawin, senior forecast economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association of America.

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Real Estate Outlook: State of the Economy