After reaching a 19-month high, pending home sales eased in December but stayed above year-ago levels.

President's speech supports homeowners and struggling housing market.

Existing-home sales continued on an uptrend in December, rising for three consecutive months and remaining above a year ago.

Congress is expected to take a serious look at reforming the secondary mortgage market this year. Here are the main bills it wiil be looking at.

Leo Parejas of Keller Williams Realty, Reston, Va., and Jonathan Spinetto of Champion Homes Realty, Chantilly, Va., talk about best practices and potential pitfalls of running an REO operation.

Did you know that you can download and read titles from NAR's eBooks Collection on your iPad using the free Overdrive app? NAR Senior Information Specialist Dave Shumaker gives step-by-step instructions in this video. The app is available for Blackb

NAR joined other groups to file a brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case that concerns due process rights of home owners caught in an EPA wetlands dispute.

Data shows pending home sales continued to gain in November and reached the highest level in 19 months.

NAR's Pending Home Sales Index for November 2011 is up for the second month in a row.

NAR releases its new method for calculating existing-home sales on Dec. 21, 2011. NAR Chief Econmist Lawrence Yun talks with REALTOR® Magazine Editor in Chief Stacey Moncrieff about the process the association used to 'rebenchmark' the EHS series.

Existing-home sales rose again in November and remain above a year ago. Also released today were periodic benchmark revisions with downward adjustments to sales and inventory data since 2007, led by a decline in for-sale-by-owners.

According to the 2011-12 Remodeling Cost vs. Value Report, exterior improvements are among the most valuable home investment projects.