The housing market growth has spread to 274 metropolitan cities according to the National Association of Home Builders Improving Markets Index. The expansion has brought new jobs and local tax revenues to an increasing amount of cities as well as home starts and sales. David Crowe, the NAHB Chief Economist said, “with just over 75 percent of the 361 metros covered by the IMI now seen as improving, the housing market is on considerably more solid footing than it was at this time last year.” More here
