Nearly 40 percent of home sales were cash deals in November.

The answer is complicated, thanks to that basic economic rule: supply and demand.

Existing home sales report shows cautious homeowners and home buyers.

Many of the new homes being sold now were planned years ago. Finally demand has returned, in part because first-time buyers are being outbid by investors for bargain foreclosure sales.

Home sales in popular neighborhoods are up sharply as the economy continues its slow-but-steady recovery.

Home sales jumped 8% last month. Those numbers and better than expected quarterly sales in home improvement supplies could mean some long-awaited relief for the housing market.

This year may go on record as the worst for new-home sales since anyone started keeping record.

Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics has released a list of 55 U.S. cities organized according to how cost effective it is to rent a home, rather than…

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