The National Association of Home Builders released its latest batch of data on housing market conditions this afternoon ... * The overall index rose to 19 in September from 18 in August. That matched the average forecast of economists polled by Bloo...

We just got the latest data on home construction. Here's a recap of what they showed: Overall housing starts dipped to 581,000 in July from 587,000 in June. That 1% decline left starts running a bit below the average forecast of economists

The latest Beige Book report on the state of the economy was just released by the Fed. The summary suggests we're seeing more stability and/or gradual improvement in the economy: "Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts indicate that...

The National Association of Realtors just released data on pending home sales for October. A recap: * Pending home sales rose 3.7%. That was much better than the 1% decline that economists were expecting. * On a year-over-year basis, the pending...

We just got a look at how the new home market fared in October. Here's a recap: * New home sales spiked 6.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 430,000. That was up from 405,000 a month earlier and above forecasts for a reading of 404,000. The...

Sorry for the delay -- Had to do a video segment on the existing home sales numbers with CNBC, which can be viewed here. As I said in various forums six months ago, I believe the housing market has started to turn -- in construction, sales, inventory,...

The Mortgage Bankers Association's figures on home loan performance just keep getting worse and worse. Here is what things looked like in Q3 2009: * The overall mortgage delinquency rate surged to 9.64% in Q3 2009 from 9.24% in Q2 2009 and 6.99% a...