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The #'s Show Demand Up: That's What a Housing Recovery Looks Like, VHF

The housing market is recovering. At least, 1 million people think so.That’s the number of people who bought homes in the first three months of 2010. And that’s more people than have bought homes in the first three months of the last two years.

Let’s throw out caveats and the concerns and step back for a moment. It’s easy to point to a lot of different reasons why the home sales figures are inflated, or why home prices continue to have risk...The resale market is clouded by a lot of external factors that are driving price and inventory, but the actual number of homes sold show that there is an underlying increase in demand. From it we can infer that consumers feel good about buying homes. And that’s what the recovery will look like.
By Dan McCarthy,April 23, 2010,  www.viralhousingfix.com

Link to charts and article

04/23/10 Dan McCarthy, "This is the 2nd of two charts. It looks at how the market pacing has looked at the start of each of the last four years. This first quarter of this year was up 12% in sales versus the year before, breaking a decline that started in 2006."