
Nationally, the home-buying season was a bust. March through August are typically the peak buying months in most of the country. But this time, Americans bought fewer new homes in that stretch than in any other six-month period since record-keeping began a half-century ago. And sales of previously occupied homes didn’t fare much better. They almost matched 2009’s total for the peak buying months. And that was the worst year since 1997.[...] Read More