The number of homes under contract to sell increased in May. It’s the fourth straight month in which sales volume increased, corroborating the growing notion that housing is on the mend in most U.S. markets. Consider these other housing-related stories from the past month: Existing Home Sales are rising New home supplies are falling The [...]

Tuesday — for the first time in a long while — members of the press met the monthly Case-Shiller Index data with enthusiasm. And why shouldn’t they? 19 of the 20 measured markets showed a slowing pace of home price decline in April. Here are some of the headlines about the story: Case-Shiller Home Prices [...]