(Harrisburg) -- Economists from the Keystone Research Center in Harrisburg say current trends in housing prices suggest more declines to come. Drops in housing prices and jumps in unemployment rates for Pennsylvania increase the risk of mortgage delinquencies and home foreclosures.

For instance, parts of New England, states in the Great Lakes, including Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, show increased mortgage delinquencies and "notable increases" in unemployment rates, he said. California, Florida and parts of Colorado, on ...

Low mortgage rates, low unemployment rates and strong demographics continued to reflect positive economic signs in Florida in August. Statewide, sales of existing single- family homes totaled 11,279 last month and were closer to activity in August 2001 and 2002 -- before the peak of the housing boom years -- than the August 2006 figures, when 15,252 homes sold for a 26 percent decrease in the ...