WASHINGTON - Median home prices fell in two-thirds of the cities surveyed during the first three months of this year while 46 states reported declining sales, a real estate trade group reported Tuesday.

WASHINGTON - Median home prices fell in two-thirds of the cities surveyed during the first three months of this year while 46 states reported experienced declining sales, a real estate trade group reported today.

WASHINGTON - Homeowners and investors hunting for any indication that the housing market has bottomed out didn't get it Tuesday, as the latest home sales data from a real estate trade group moved that sign further down the road to recovery.

LOS ANGELES - A trade group for real estate agents says the percentage of Californians who can afford to buy their first home increased in the last three months of 2007 compared to the same time a year earlier.

WASHINGTON - Sales of existing homes fell in 45 states during the October-December quarter, with metropolitan areas showing growing weakness, a real estate trade group said Thursday.

Home price declines in California this year will be steeper than she originally forecast, an economist for the state's biggest real estate trade group said Wednesday in Campbell. But there's a silver lining.

Home price declines in California this year will be steeper than she originally forecast, an economist for the state's biggest real estate trade group said Wednesday in Campbell.

WASHINGTON - Pending U.S. home sales dipped in November, a trade group for real estate agents said Tuesday, but it expects the sales pace to pick up significantly in the second half of 2008.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Bucking conventional wisdom, a trade group for real-estate agents on Monday said the battered housing market is on the verge of stabilizing and inched-up its outlook for 2007 and 2008 home sales.

LAS VEGAS - While the national forecast for home sales remains relatively flat for the coming year, the chief economist for the country's largest real estate trade group told reporters Tuesday that San Francisco and Silicon Valley are in stronger shape than many parts of California.