NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — With home sales plunging to their lowest level in 15 years, economists warn that a double-dip in housing prices is just around the corner, threatening to further slow the overall recovery.
Existing home sales sank 27.2% in July, twice as much as analysts expected, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.83 [...]

REALTOR.org With the scheduled closing deadline for the home buyer tax credits, existing-home sales slowed in June but remained at relatively elevated levels, according to the National Association of Realtors®.
Existing-home sales1, which are completed transactions that include single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, fell 5.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.37 million units [...]

Sales of previously occupied homes fell in June and are expected to keep sinking, indicating that the housing market’s troubles are likely to drag on the economic recovery.
Sales fell 5.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.37 million, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday. Economists polled by Thomson Reuters had expected sales [...]

(Reuters) – U.S. existing home sales fell less sharply than expected to a three-month low in June, though the supply of unsold homes rose to the highest in almost a year, an industry group said on Thursday.
Sales fell 5.1 percent to an annual unit rate of 5.37 million units, the National Association of Realtors said. [...]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The experts expected home sales to drop once the homebuyer tax credit lapsed at the end of April, but the depth of the decrease was shocking.
According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), pending home sales fell a whopping 30% in May. Their index, which measures signed sales contracts but not [...]

Palm Beach Post:  The nation’s home builders are suffering one heck of a hangover after the April end of the home buyer tax credit as sales took a record-breaking plummet in May to the lowest levels seen in more than four decades.
The 33 percent crash in new home sales the Commerce Department reported Wednesday was [...]

Palm Beach Post:  WASHINGTON — Sales of new homes collapsed in May, sinking 33 percent to the lowest level on record as potential buyers stopped shopping for homes once they could no longer receive government tax credits.
The bleak report from the Commerce Department is the first sign of how the end of federal tax credits could [...]

Rueters: Sales of previously owned homes fell unexpectedly in May as delays in processing mortgage applications hampered the closing of contracts benefiting from a popular homebuyer tax credit, an industry group said on Tuesday.
The National Association of Realtors said sales fell 2.2 percent month over month to an annual rate of 5.66 million units from [...]

(Reuters) – Sales of previously owned U.S. homes unexpectedly fell last month, a decline economists and real estate agents pinned on delays in processing mortgage applications.
Existing home sales fell 2.2 percent to an annual rate of 5.66 million units in May, the National Association of Realtors said on Tuesday.
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Palm Beach Post:  Providing further evidence of a strengthening market, South Florida home buyers signed contracts at a fast clip in May, catapulting the number of pending home sales up 54 percent in Miami-Dade and 51 percent in Broward, compared to the same month last year. The figures reflect the surge of international buyers taking advantage [...]

Reuters: Pending sales of previously owned U.S. homes rose more than expected in April, scaling a six-month high as prospective home owners took advantage of a popular homebuyer tax credit, a survey showed on Wednesday.  The National Association of Realtors said its Pending Home Sales Index, based on contracts signed in April, increased 6.0 percent [...]

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Supported by a tax credit, the pending home sales index rose a seasonally adjusted 5.3% in March, and was up 21.1% compared with a year earlier, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday.  For March, sales contracts rose 12.7% in the South, 1.9% in the West and 1.2% in the Midwest. Contracts [...]

Sales boomed last fall as the homebuyer tax credit’s original expiration approached in November. With a new tax-credit deadline approaching, sales have improved this spring, but not nearly as much.
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CNBC It’s big, no question. A 27 percent monthly bump up in sales of newly constructed homes.  To me this is real proof of the tax credit boost, because this data series is based on contracts signed, unlike the Existing Home Sales series we got yesterday from the Realtors, which is based on closings (so contracts [...]

Florida’s existing home sales soared in March, growing 25 percent compared to the same time last year and topping February sales by 37 percent.  Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast also saw increases, jumping 23 percent and 21 percent respectively compared to March 2009.
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Contracts for pending sales of previously owned homes unexpectedly rose in February, a survey from the National Association of Realtors showed, a rise the group said may be attributed to home buyers taking advantage of a soon-to-expire tax credit.  The Realtors said its Pending Home Sales Index, based on contracts signed in February, rose 8.2 [...]

WASHINGTON — Sales of new homes fell unexpectedly to their lowest point on record in February, in part because stormy winter weather kept buyers away. The results pointed to the housing industry’s struggle to rebound from the worst slump in decades.  Sales fell 2.2 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace of 308,000, [...]

Reuters: Sales of previously owned U.S. homes fell slightly in February, according to a trade group report on Tuesday that underscored the fragile nature of the housing market’s recovery.  The National Association of Realtors said sales fell 0.6 percent month-over-month to an annual rate of 5.02 million units, the third straight month of declines in sales. [...]

ORLANDO – Florida’s existing home sales rose in January, marking 17 months that sales activity has increased in the year-to-year comparison, according to the latest housing data released by Florida Realtors.  Existing home sales increased 24% last month with a total of 10,465 homes sold statewide compared to 8,444 homes sold in January 2009, according [...]