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By Jacqueline Hlavenka. The single-family home market is beginning to show signs of improvement as inventory continues to drop, mortgage rates remain low and affordability stay at an all-time high.

By the Associated Press. Builders across the country are revamping home designs to meet the needs of a growing number of Americans who are now living with extended family.

By Scott Van Voorhis. With the Baby Boom generation getting ready to sell off their big suburban homes, buyers are going to be desperately needed in the years ahead. And one potential life saver may be new immigrants.

By Jonathan Lansner and Jeff Collins. Gary Painter, director of research with the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate, predicts that an aging immigrant population will provide housing a long-term boost.

By Binyamin Appelbaum. Announcements of a housing recovery have become a wrongheaded rite of summer, but after several years of false hopes, evidence is accumulating that the optimists may finally be right.

By Michele Lerner. After the housing bubble burst and the recession pushed Americans to become more frugal, most housing experts assumed the days of McMansions were over.

By Claire Easley. Sales of existing homes dropped unexpectedly in June to the lowest level seen all year, as first-time buyers fell to their lowest share of sales seen this year.

By Richard Guzmán. New $120 Million Apartment Complex Scheduled to Open in 2014

By Madeleine Brand.

By Mark Garrison. There's a growing sense among economists that the housing market has finally hit bottom. Home prices and home sales have been stabalizing in many places.