Trulia’s December 2012 Housing Barometer, a monthly roundup in which three key housing indicators -- construction starts, existing home sales, and delinquencies + foreclosures -- are measured relative to their worst points during the crash and their normal levels, shows the housing recovery is now 52 percent back to normal, versus 49 percent in November and 27 percent one year ago.
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