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Byline: Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY There are glimmers of hope in the U.S. housing market, and ambitious buyers might finally find what they're looking for in the coming months, according [...]

Byline: Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY A slight decline in mortgage rates in December and January contributed to an improvement in pending home sales for a second consecutive month, according [...]

Byline: Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY PHOENIX - Ashlee Eisenstein's landlord recently increased the rent on her one-bedroom apartment in Phoenix from $850 a month to $1,150, a 26% increase. She [...]

Byline: Yan Zhang, USA TODAY Home sales are hurting. Even with lower mortgages rates and a sales pick-up in July, purchases of homes are still down significantly compared with 2018. [...]

ABC News is launching a new 24/7 news channel in May on the Roku player. ABC News Live will be part of a software update and viewable within the Roku [...]

U.S. sales of existing homes rebounded in February after declining for the previous two months, a sign that many Americans are still looking to buy despite rising prices and a [...]

Housing weakness? Pending home sales drop The housing recovery appears to be making a U-turn as mortgage rates rise amid a critically low supply of homes for sale. Pending home [...]

Walgreens plans to close about 600 drugstores as it completes a $4.38 billion deal to buy nearly 2,000 stores from rival Rite Aid. Company spokesman Michael Polzin said Wednesday that [...]

What do Brooks Brothers, Carhartt and Tracy Reese have in common? They're helping shape a new look for United Airlines. United confirmed Thursday it has turned to the two retailers [...]

UPS plans to begin accepting and delivering U.S. packages by ground on Saturdays in certain markets. The move will allow customers in some cases to ship packages on Saturday for [...]

J&J buys ActElion in $30B biopharma deal Johnson & Johnson is moving to boost earnings and increase its revenues by buying Swiss biopharmaceutical company Actelion for roughly $30 billion in [...]

Byline: Paul Davidson, @Pdavidsonusat, USA TODAY Sales of existing homes fell in December amid historically low supplies and rising prices and mortgage rates but still closed out the best year [...]

Byline: Athena Cao, USA TODAY New-home sales surged in July to the highest level in almost nine years as strong demand amid low interest rates and low existing inventory helped [...]

Existing-home sales hit 9-year high in June Existing-home sales rose for the fourth consecutive month in June, reaching a nine-year high. Sales of existing single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops [...]

The British pound hit a seven-year low against the dollar Wednesday amid continuing fears about Britain's membership of the European Union. The pound declined 0.9% to $1.3887 in intraday trading, [...]

The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that sales of existing homes rose 2% last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.59 million, the fastest rate since February [...]

Byline: Doug Carroll, USA TODAY New-home sales soared almost 8% in February as a snowy winter month failed to deter buyers as expected. Sales of single-family homes rose to a [...]

August sales of new single-family homes soared to the highest level in more than six years, boosting hopes that a weakling housing recovery may be at last building some muscle. [...]

Byline: Paul Davidson, @PDavidsonusat, USA TODAY Existing home sales climbed last month to their fastest pace since September, providing further evidence that the housing market is bouncing back after a [...]

Byline: Doug Carroll, USA TODAY Sales of new single-family homes fell 8.1% in June, and May's previously reported surge was slashed by a record revision. Paired with June's slippage, newly [...]

Byline: Doug Carroll, USA TODAY Existing-home sales showed more vigor in June, climbing for the third straight month to their fastest annual pace since October. Sales rose 2.6% to a [...]

Byline: Paul Davidson, @PDavidsonusat, USA TODAY The housing market continued to sputter in March as adverse weather, low supplies and higher costs discouraged home buyers. Existing home sales declined 0.2% [...]

Byline: Doug Carroll, USA TODAY New home sales rose sharply in January, defying expectations for a drop-off due to harsh winter weather in much of the country. Sales reached their [...]

Byline: Adam Shell Tight inventory, higher prices and bad weather could add up to fewer-than-expected sales of existing homes in January. The National Association of Realtors is slated to release [...]

Byline: Tim Mullaney, @timmullaney, USA TODAY New-home sales dropped 7% in December, setting off arguments about how much the cold weather held down sales and whether the report clouds the [...]

Byline: Julie Schmit, @julieschmit, USA TODAY Existing home sales lost steam in November as buyers faced higher interest rates and a tight supply of homes for sale, the National Association [...]

Retailers have been sounding worry notes recently, and this week's parade of earnings reports from struggling players such as J.C. Penney may add to the gloom. Reports to watch this [...]

Byline: Tim Mullaney, @TimMullaney, USA TODAY New home sales in June hit their highest level in more than five years, a sign of the housing market's strength in the face [...]

Byline: Julie Schmit, @julieschmit, USA TODAY Existing-home sales rose slightly last month to their highest level since late 2009, and while the supply for sale jumped, it's still tight, the [...]

Byline: Julie Schmit, USA TODAY Home sales slipped in June to the lowest in seven months as the U.S. housing market struggles to find traction. Sales of existing homes, including [...]

Byline: Noelle Knox With winter inching closer, the housing market in Anchorage has cooled off. National real estate trends seem to take a while to get to Alaska. A decline [...]

Byline: Noelle Knox Despite the current layer of ice covering Tulsa, the real estate market there shows no sign of frost. And it's not just the oil industry that's stoking [...]