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Asking prices increase in March
Consumers and specially people that are trying to buy, rent, or refinance their homes; save their homes from foreclosure; or sell their properties might hear some different stories and feel differently about the news and how they might be affected by it.  Here is an interesting article worth a few minutes of your time:
 
 
Asking prices increase in March Asking prices rose 1.4 percent nationally in March compared with the previous quarter, according to Trulia’s Price Monitor.  On a month-over-month comparison, asking prices increased 0.9 percent in March and 0.6 percent in February. Throughout 2011, asking prices rose slightly in several months of the year, but never more than 0.2 percent in a month. Asking prices in March were 0.7 percent below their level one year earlier. Asking rents rose over the past year in almost all large metro areas included in the Trulia Rent Monitor. In the largest metros, rents rose 6.2 percent in New York and 6.1 percent in Chicago, but only 0.6 percent in Los Angeles. Rents rose strongly in Miami (12.1 percent) and Denver (9.9 percent), which also experienced large asking price increases. Meanwhile, rental affordability declined in places where rents rose while prices fell, ... more

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