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According to one analysis, the labor market in over 100 metro areas is considered "back to normal." How will this improvement correlate with rising interest rates?

The housing market is slowly but surely inching closer to normal levels with the help of economic and job growth, according to the National Association of Home Builders/First American Leading Markets Index released Thursday.

Housing and economic activity has returned to or exceeded normal levels in 68 of about 360 metropolitan areas in the country (about 19 percent) as of the end of Q1 2015, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/First American Leading Markets Index (LMI) released Wednesday.