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The National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index grew to 99 metro areas in in March, with Orlando. Fla., Rochester, N.Y., Columbus, Ohio, and Austin and San Antonio, Texas, joining the list.
The index identifies areas with improvement from troughs in employment (from the Bureau of Labor Statistics), home prices (from Freddie Mac) and single-family housing permits (from the U.S. Census Bureau) for six consecutive months.
“Economic conditions have been consistently strengthening in a diverse array of individual markets nationwide,” noted Barry Rutenberg, chairman of the association.
Thirty-two states and the District of Columbia are represented by at least one market:
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Last year was an unusual one for the housing market in a lot of ways, but perhaps the oddest numbers came out of the new-home market (via the Market Watch blog):
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The online real estate market Zillow.com recently compiled its list of the markets that showed the biggest drops in the prices of homes for sale from coast to coast, and they are concentrated in four states.
Perhaps coincidentally, the Interstate 75 corridor cuts through all but two of the cities, as it runs from Florida through Georgia and north to Michigan.
The lowest average listing price on the list was in Lansing, Mich., at $56,600, followed by Macon, Ga., at $57,000. Bakersfield, Calif., had the highest price at $130,300, followed by Gainesville, Ga., $124,500.
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