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Real estate investments are rising in popularity as a combination of strong fundamentals, near-record-low mortgage rates and a drop in foreclosures supports the notion that housing is on a road to recovery.Home prices rose for the 13th month in a row in March, jumping 10.5% year-over-year to post its biggest annual climb in seven years. Also, housing starts topped 1 million in March for the first time in nearly five years while home repossessions fell 20% in April from the previous month."Our positive view of the housing market remains on track," Robert Wetenhall, RBC Capital Markets, said. "The key drivers include low interest rates, tight inventory levels and rising home prices."Investors looking to capitalize off the housing market can play the rebound through various exchange traded funds.Homebuilder exchange traded funds continue to set multiyear highs this year after finishing among the top performers of 2012. The iShares Dow Jones U.S. Construction (NYSE:ITB) and the SPDR S&P Ho...
U.S. stocks fell sharply on Wednesday, retreating from multiyear highs, after minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting illustrated differing views over contin...
U.S. stocks on Wednesday fell the most in two weeks as investors considered varied views from Federal Reserve officials on the longevity of the central bank's asset-...
Despite a sell-off among the nation's biggest homebuilders this week, a decline in builder sentiment last month shouldn't derail the broader housing market recovery....
U.S. stocks slipped on Wednesday from multiyear highs as investors considered housing data and awaited any hints as to whether the Federal Reserve would change its m...
Toll Brothers Inc, the largest luxury homebuilder in the United States, reported first-quarter results well below analysts' estimates, hurt by lower selling prices a...
Toll Brothers Inc. (TOL) swung to a fiscal first-quarter profit as the luxury home builder capitalized on a recovering housing market to record broad revenue growth,...
FOX Business: Capitalism Lives Here Wall Street was poised to climb in its first trading day of the week as traders responded to a considerably stronger-than-expecte...
FOX Business: Capitalism Lives Here The markets rose on Tuesday as traders responded to a round of strong economic data from Germany. However, health insurers strugg...
Coming off a year in which it was one of the top-performing ETFs of any stripe, the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Home Construction Index Fund (NYSE:ITB) has kept the good ...
Real estate as an investment was once left for dead. No longer.Housing prices have crept steadily upward this year. And the much-watched Standard & Poor's/Case-Shill...
FOX Business: Capitalism Lives HereThe markets were little changed Thursday as traders awaited the resumption of talks aimed at averting the fiscal cliff that now lo...
Toll Brothers CEO Doug Yearley on the potential impact of the fiscal cliff on the housing market and overall economy.
D.R. Horton Inc's quarterly profit almost tripled as it sold more homes at higher prices, and the No.1 U.S. homebuilder said the spring selling season was off to a s...
FOX Business: Capitalism Lives HereU.S. stock-index futures edged higher Tuesday as traders shook off worries about Cyprus and responded to better-than-expected hous...
FOX Business: Capitalism Lives HereA round of better-than-expected data on the U.S. housing market, coupled with easing worries about the situation in Cyprus, helped...
FOX Business: Capitalism Lives HereAfter a volatile trading session, the broad markets capped the day in the red as uncertainty about Cyprus overshadowed a round of ...
Battered by the financial crisis, homebuilders in the United States are adopting a targeted approach to growth as the cyclical housing market swings upward again.Sma...
Homebuilder exchange traded funds tumbled this week following mixed housing data and Toll Brothers' earnings miss. Housing starts declined 8.5% to an annualized ra...
Schaeffer’s Investment Research senior equity analyst Joe Bell and Firstrust Financial Resources President David Fleisher on the outlook for the markets.
