The National Association of REALTORS reports existing-home sales eased but prices stabilized as inventories tightened in December, while 2006 was the third-highest sales year on record.

Total existing-home sales – Total existing-home sales – including single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops – eased 0.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate1 of 6.22 million units in December from a level of 6.27 million in November.  Sales were 7.9 percent lower than a 6.75 million-unit pace in December 2005.

There were 6,480,000 existing-home sales in all of 2006, down 8.4 percent from a record 7,075,000 in 2005.  The second highest total was 6,779,000 in 2004; NAR began tracking home sales in 1968.

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Sgt. Randal “Jackson” Franks knows what it’s like to hang out in a dangerous neighborhood.

He spent time on plenty of threatening streets during his deployment to Baghdad, Iraq, with the 690th Chemical Co., Alabama Army National Guard.

Read Sgt. Franks story and learn why he says, “I would like to go back.”

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