housing market

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The housing market is showing positive signs with prices climbing back up. But is now the time to buy?

But there's a catch.

Home Depot is out today with strong earnings. American sales are up 11 percent from last year.

The rate of foreclosures in July was down 32 percent from a year earlier, according to RealtyTrac. That sounds like good news, but it masks a stubborn reality.

When it comes to helping homeowners struggling with mortgages, is President Obama taking a page out of Mitt Romney's playbook?

A new report explores the uptick in speculative home flipping — though the geography of flipping has, well, flipped.

As soon as the value of something rises, skeptics roll out the B-word: bubble.

Railroads lured homesteaders to Montana with ads that made the dry plains look like lush English countryside. Banks offered easy money, the settlers loaded up with loans — and drought set in.

Check out our side-by-side comparison of these two booms and busts nearly a hundred years apart… make your own comparisons.