DENVER, May 17, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — The national median home price rose for the third straight month in April, indicating that a housing recovery is strengthening in 2012.  In the 53 metropolitan areas surveyed by the RE/MAX National Housing Report, median home prices were 3.2% higher than March and a solid 5.9% higher than [...]

Patch goes on a hunt for homes for sale in the area every week. Last week, we shared homes for sale with plenty of bathrooms. This week, we’re spotlighting Mid-County homes for sale that you can see this weekend. Each home featured has an open house scheduled for this Sunday afternoon.   Maplewood 2745 Ellendale Ave., [...]

The thing I enjoy about visiting the Paint Quality Institute in Spring House, Pa., is adding to my knowledge of paint and painting. This advice is designed for people who are listing their houses for sale: A recently applied, high-quality acrylic latex paint can last 10 years or more and “translates into many years of [...]

Homes for Sale Fall 21% From 2011, Drag Prices Along May 17th, 2012  |  by Elizabeth Ecker Published in News, Reverse Mortgage The number of homes on the market for sale was down 21% nationally in May from May 2011, a monthly report from Pro Teck shows. The figure has a direct impact on the [...]

Flocks of buyers pushed up home sales across the Bay Area last month for the strongest April in six years, a real estate information service reported Thursday. Sales of single-family homes were up 12 percent from the previous April, according to DataQuick. There were double-digit increases in the number of homes sold in Santa Clara, [...]

(Source: Chelsey Levingston Dayton Daily News, Ohio (MCT) — The first reports on April housing market activity show some of the area’s gains at the start of the year carried over last month. Early estimates released Wednesday and today for April, part of the busiest time of the year for home-selling, show sellers listed their [...]

Home sales in the Columbia area continued to recover in April, but sales statewide declined slightly as the real estate market still struggles to turn the corner in some areas of South Carolina. “It’s amazing,” said Ron Roe, president and CEO of Russell Jeffcoat Real Estate in Columbia, which saw its first quarter of sales [...]