Since early May, the major home builders have been in free fall. The reason for the fall? Rising interest rates are supposedly threatening the housing rebound.
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August 5 - News
California is one of the hottest spots for real estate now, and prices are rising at some of the highest rates in the country.
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August 2 - News
The upward ascent of home prices continues.
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July 30 - News
America's big banks are having quite a second quarter.
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July 27 - News
Home prices continue their upward ascent.
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July 23 - News
It’s rare when you come across a situation where a company is perfectly positioned to benefit from a turnaround in an industry.
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July 18 - News
Housing is clearly on the mend. In fact, it is finally starting to realize the kind of bounce one would expect following the worst collapse since the Great Depression.
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July 17 - News
The National Association of Realtors recently warned that home prices are moving to far too fast. The only thing that can help solve the problem is more construction.
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July 16 - News
Rising household income due to an improving economic environment and an increasing employment rate once again makes housing affordable for an average American.
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July 16 - News
It's not a secret that home prices are on the rise in the U.S.
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July 15 - News
For the sixth straight month, more than 70% of all American metropolitan areas are showing growth in their housing markets.
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July 15 - News
The housing market suffered during the recession, with the median size of a new single-family home dropping by an estimated 6%, according to NPR.
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July 15 - News
Mortgage rates have skyrocketed over the past few months.
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July 15 - News
I’ve written for over a year about the improvement in the housing market. Toll Brothers Inc (NYSE:TOL) and Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN) have been two of my best performing...
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July 12 - News
I hate it when I’m looking at an earnings report and I’m left with a big unanswered question.
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July 10 - News
Corporate executives and board members (“insiders”) are required to fully disclose their stock purchases pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment...
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July 10 - Insider Trading
Home builders stumbled in June on fear rising mortgage rates will derail demand. But, demand may not suffer as much as feared.
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July 8 - News
A consensus of home builders believe conditions for new construction are favorable for the first time since the housing market tanked seven long years ago.
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July 3 - News
Home-builder stocks soared in 2012 and early this year but have since leveled off their earlier peak.
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July 2 - News
There's a growing chorus of evidence that nationwide home prices have turned the corner.
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July 2 - News
It sounds premature to say that the housing market should be booming again already, but it's true.
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July 2 - News
A Form 4 filed with the SEC has disclosed that Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN) Board member Jeffrey Sonnenfeld directly acquired over 3,300 shares of stock on June 27th at an average...
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July 1 - Insider Trading
If you had any doubts about the housing recovery, then June should have assuaged you.
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July 1 - News
The US housing market seems to be recovering amid low mortgage rates and an improving job market that is helping the economy to recover from the financial meltdown.
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June 29 - News
After an epic meltdown following years of rampant speculation, the U.S. housing market has made serious recovery strides.
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June 27 - News
Blue-chip stocks are surging this afternoon following a number of better-than-expected economic reports related to jobs, income, spending, inflation, and home sales.
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June 27 - News
Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN) released second-quarter financial results this week.
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June 27 - News
Back in January, green shoots in the housing market were just starting to show. Home prices had risen 7.4% during 2012 - the most since 2005.
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June 27 - News
Despite rising interest rates and some troubling data regarding the housing recovery, homebuilder Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN) beat analyst estimates and showed a cheery outlook...
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June 27 - News
Hot-selling homebuilder stocks such as D.R. Horton, Inc.
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June 26 - News
For Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:SWHC), betting on strong results is a pretty safe wager. The gun maker issued preliminary results two weeks ago.
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June 25 - News
Existing-home sales increased last month to the highest level since November 2009, and if you exclude the momentary boost from the first-time home-buyer tax credit that year, ...
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June 20 - News
Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN) San Antonio is continuing its campaign to significantly expand its presence in the greater San Antonio housing market, via some hefty land deals...
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June 20 - News
The increasing use of school loans to pay for college, combined with the rising cost of such an education, is likely to have long-term consequences.
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June 20 - News
Officially, 7.6% of Americans are unemployed.
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June 20 - News
Last Monday's home builder sentiment report surged for the month of June and broke 50, a key milestone that suggest builders view conditions as favorable versus poor.
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June 18 - News
The U.S. housing market hit a critical milestone today for the first time in more than seven years.
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June 18 - News
Consumer credit increased in April, partly on auto loan growth. That's being driven by pent up demand and the desire to lock in low rates, just like home sales.
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June 17 - News
The most well known home builders are now trading at valuations that fully account for the recent rebound in the housing market.
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June 14 - News
Home sales have been improving of late. The momentum of the recovery has increased notably in recent months.
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June 14 - News
U.S. home sales are rising -- the month of April saw the second highest level of sales in three and half years.
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June 14 - News
The recent rise in home prices is a strong indicator that the economy is recovering. Meritage Homes Corp (NYSE:MTH) and Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN) have more than tripled ...
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June 14 - News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWR), Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ), KB Home (NYSE:KBH), Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN), PulteGroup, Inc.
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June 13 - News
After the financial crisis hit, few sectors in the market got hit as hard as the homebuilders.
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June 13 - News
Steve Mandel's Lone Pine Capital just disclosed that it owns a 5.1% stake in realty group Realogy Holdings Corp (NYSE:RLGY).
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June 10 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller founded his Duquesne Capital hedge fund in 1981. It now has some $10 billion in assets under management.
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June 10 - Hedge Funds
New home sales were strong in April, according to Bloomberg. What was more interesting, however, was that the median home price went up.
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June 5 - News
I have generally observed that investing in a company catering to a niche segment can go either way; it can be pretty lucrative, or lead to disastrous consequences when that particular...
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June 4 - News
In mid May, Capital Growth Management, a fund managed by Ken Heebner, filed its 13F with the SEC.
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May 30 - Hedge Funds
It is no secret that the U.S. housing market is on the rebound. More people are getting jobs, the unemployment rate is falling, and the housing price indexes are increasing.
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May 28 - News