{"id":26771,"date":"2012-01-22T04:45:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T09:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/2012\/01\/22\/u-s-home-sales-rise-5-in-december\/"},"modified":"2012-01-22T04:45:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T09:45:03","slug":"u-s-home-sales-rise-5-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/01\/22\/u-s-home-sales-rise-5-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Home Sales Rise 5% in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"540\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=vc3f5acc9a7cb5ee4f4f9b94415108d246ebb7ab0&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=vc3f5acc9a7cb5ee4f4f9b94415108d246ebb7ab0&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Some encouraging news coming out of Washington today &#8211; the National Association of Realtors said that sales of previously owned U.S. homes rose for a third month in December to the highest level since January 2011, a sign the housing market ended last year with momentum.Purchases increased 5 percent to a 4.61 million annual rate. The gain helped push down the inventory of homes for sale last month to the lowest level since 2005. Low mortgage rates and a pickup in employment may be giving Americans the confidence to purchase homes that have fallen in value.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/01\/22\/0_7lgpkcj0_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/01\/22\/0_7lgpkcj0_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some encouraging news coming out of Washington today &#8211; the National Association of Realtors said that sales of previously owned U.S. homes rose for a third month in December to the highest level since January 2011, a sign the housing market ended last year with momentum.Purchases increased 5 percent to a 4.61 million annual rate. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/01\/22\/u-s-home-sales-rise-5-in-december\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;U.S. Home Sales Rise 5% in December&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}