Pending sales rise for 8th month

A trade group's index gauging pending sales of resale homes rose for the eighth straight month in September and was up 21.2 percent compared to the same month last year.

The National Association of Realtors reported that the index rose 6.1 percent from August to September, reaching 110.1 -- an index score of 100 is equal to the average level of sales contract activity in 2001, which was the first year to be examined for the index.

The index for all of 2008 was 87.1; in 2007 it was 96.3, and in 2006 it stood at 111.9.

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