“With interest rates at lows not seen since early 2013, the strength in existing-sales in upcoming months will largely depend on the willingness of current home owners to realize their equity gains from the past couple years and trade up,” according to NAR’s latest housing report.

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Fixed-rate mortgages reversed course this week, inching up, following weeks of declines.

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But the decade-long decline in home ownership may now be drawing to an end. Find out why economists are so upbeat.

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More home owners are sprucing up their properties, which could lift the home improvement business to record levels this year.

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Detroit city officials are on a mission to clear tens of thousands of abandoned, dilapidated houses throughout its city, but squatters are preventing them from bulldozing the homes.

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These five architectural design trends are set to impact 2015.
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