The Pending Home Sales Index is on a 14-month winning streak.
30-year fixed rate mortgage rates have now dropped through 5 consecutive weeks, and in 11 of the last 12 weeks.
Home resales slipped more than 5 percent last month, putting a damper recent housing market enthusiasm.
For the second time in three months, the National Association of Homebuilders reports that the Housing Market Index made sizable gains.
The number of U.S. homes receiving foreclosure notices topped one million through the first six months of 2012, according to RealtyTrac.
You may not have stopped your lawn from turning brown, but, generally, you can nurse it back to being green.