Top of the Tweets: Pending sales and the coffee in Paris

April 13, 2010

By Camilla McLaughlin The good news/ bad news real estate saga continues. This week, pending sales, a forward-looking indicator based on contracts signed in February, rose 8.2 percent and remains 17.3 percent above February 2009, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, says, “The rise in buyer contract activity [...]