“Normal” might be back on the horizon for many U.S. housing markets. In the first quarter of 2015, 68 of the nation’s 360 metro areas returned to or exceeded their last normal levels of economic and housing activity, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders/First American Leading Markets Index (LMI). That’s a gain […]

For housing, things are getting back to normal—and then some—in a lot of places. Markets in 63 of the nearly 350 metro areas nationwide returned to or exceeded their last normal levels of economic and housing activity in the fourth quarter of 2014, according to the recently released National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/First American […]

Markets in 56 of the approximately 350 metro areas nationwide have returned to or exceeded their last normal levels of economic and housing activity, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/First American Leading Markets Index (LMI), which represents a net gain of seven markets over last year. The index’s nationwide score moved up […]