RBI Pending Home Sales Index™ Reports a 33 Percent Jump Year-Over-Year; Home Prices Slip

Rockville, MD – (March 10, 2011) – According to data released today by RealEstate Business Intelligence (RBI), an MRIS company, the Washington, DC metro area housing market showed the largest year-over-year increase in pending home sales although housing prices remained weak.

“There was a 33 percent year-over-year increase in the number of contracts signed in February, the largest increase in more than a decade,” says housing market expert and RBI analyst Jonathan Miller. “The number of signed contracts remains 13.7 percent below the ten year average but activity has begun to expand.  Unusually restrictive mortgage lending conditions continue to keep housing prices in check.”