Topic: Tax-credit deadline boosts existing-home sales

Buoyed by buyers racing to beat the deadline for the second and last federal tax credit, existing-home sales nationally rose 22.8 percent in April from the same month in 2009.

The National Association of Realtors reported Monday that sales rose 7.6 percent in April from March.

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