The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) released their Improving Markets Index for December 2012 which included a total of 201 metro areas in the U.S., a whopping increase of 76 metro areas from the prior month! To make this list metro areas must have shown improvement in at least the prior six months in the areas of: home sales, home prices and employment.The map below shows in green those metro areas that are currently on the NAHB Improving Markets List and, as you can see, 44 states have at least one metro area that made the list.

Source: NAHB Improvement Markets Index
