Housing sales show increase

According to new statistics released by U.S. Census Bureau News and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, new single-family house sales increased 4.4 percent nationally in the month of November.

“Housing indicators for the third quarter of 2012 continue to portray a fragile, but steady, recovery in the housing market,” members of the department said.

The seasonally-adjusted rate nationally for the month of November was 377,000 houses sold, surpassing not only the estimated October rate of 361,000 homes but also creating a 15.3 percent increase in house sales from Nov. 2011.

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