In yet another sign that the housing market is deteriorating, January Pending Home Sales not only fell from December, but they were also down from January of 2010.

Greg Swan, super Phoenix bull drones on with 21 preposterous reasons why Phoenix will not crash. All of his reasons were rebutted at the time and in detail by myself and others so many times and in so many places, I could fill up pages listing them.

The Double-Dip (Probably) Stops Dipping in March – Redfin We’re one of the only ones who are more optimistic. We recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal that housing numbers through February would be “woeful,” but that we expected the double-dip to stop dipping in March. Do we still feel that way? Mostly. Demand was stronger [...]

Existing-home sales, which are completed transactions that include single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, increased 2.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.36 million in January from a downwardly revised 5.22 million in December, and are 5.3 percent above the 5.09 million level in January 2010. This is the first time in seven months that sales activity was higher than a year earlier.

Today’s Case-Shiller Home Price Report confirms a sharp contraction in home prices during the second-half of 2010. Home prices are only slightly above their 2009 lows and will likely reach new lows in the coming months. From Standard and Poors: New York, February 22, 2011 – Data through December 2010, released today by Standard & [...]