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By admin, on November 14th, 2009
Reduced home prices and the first-time home buyer tax credit have helped dramatically boost the lower end housing market, according to a residential market update yesterday at the 2009 REALTORS® Conference & Expo.
Lawrence Yun, National Association of Realtors® chief economist, said home sales continue to be dominated by lower priced homes. In fact, NAR data [...]
By Dennis Norman, on September 24th, 2009
Dennis Norman
According to the latest report released today from the National Association of REALTORS(R), existing home sales in August dropped 2.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted rate of 5.1 million units down from a level of 5.24 million units in July. This drop follows four-consecutive months of increases in the pace of existing home [...]
By Dennis Norman, on September 1st, 2009
Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist, NAR
By: Dennis Norman
Today the National Association of REALTORS(R) issued their Pending Home Sales Index Report for July showing pending sales in the U.S. were up for the sixth consecutive month, the best streak since NAR began the pending home sale index in 2001.
Today’s report is not the only recent report [...]
By Dennis Norman, on August 21st, 2009
By: Dennis Norman
Dennis Norman
The housing market continues to show signs that it may be ready to come off life support which is very good news for the real estate investor. I know many investors have been anxious to take advantage of some of the great opportunities to buy investment property at prices way below what it [...]
By Dennis Norman, on August 19th, 2009
Dennis Norman
By: Dennis Norman
Today the National Association of REALTORS(R) published their Commercial Leading Indicator for Brokerage Activity for the second quarter of 2009 showing a decline of 1.3 percent to an index of 101.5, down from an index of 102.8 in the first quarter. At 101.5 the index for the second quarter of 2009 [...]
By Dennis Norman, on August 12th, 2009
Dennis Norman
By: Dennis Norman
The good news about the real estate market keeps coming! Don’t get too excited yet, I don’t know that the worst of it is over yet, not sure if the “fat lady has sang” yet or not, but at least the reports lately on the market have been encouraging.
According to the [...]
By Dennis Norman, on July 23rd, 2009
Dennis Norman
By: Dennis Norman
Today the National Association of REALTORS(R) released its existing home sales report for June showing an increase in sales for the 3rd month in a row and rising prices for the month in all regions of the U.S.
Existing home sales, including single-family, town-homes, condominiums and co-ops increased 3.6% in June to [...]
By Dennis Norman, on July 7th, 2009
By: Dennis Norman
Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist, NAR
We continue to see some encouraging data on the real estate market showing that buyers may be gaining some confidence in the market. To this point, the National Association of REALTORS(R) Pending Home Sales Index Report for May showed a very modest increase of 0.1% on the index, over April, making [...]
By Dennis Norman, on June 23rd, 2009
By: Dennis Norman
Today the National Association of REALTORS(R) released its existing home sales report for May showing an increase in sales for the 2nd month in a row. This is the first time we’ve seen two consecutive months of sales increases in almost 4 years.
Sales for May were at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 4,770,000 homes which is a [...]
By Dennis Norman, on June 2nd, 2009
By: Dennis Norman
Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist, NAR
Today the National Association of REALTORS(R) issued their Pending Home Sales Index Report for April which showed a significant increase of 6.7% on the index, over March. April makes the third month in a row the index has increased.
Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said “buyers are responding to [...]
By Dennis Norman, on May 28th, 2009
Dennis Norman
By: Dennis Norman
Yesterday the National Association of REALTORS(R) released its existing home sales report for April showing a slight increase in sales of 2.9% over March.
Sales for April were at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 4,680,000 homes which is down 3.5% from last year, which means in year over year numbers things are improving because last months annual rate [...]
By Dennis Norman, on May 5th, 2009
By: Dennis Norman
Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist, NAR
Yesterday the National Association of REALTORS(R) issued their Pending Home Sales Index Report for March which showed, for the second consecutive month, an increase.
Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said “This increase could be the leading edge of first-time buyers responding to very favorable affordability conditions and an [...]
By Dennis Norman, on January 18th, 2009
By: Dennis Norman
According to the National Association of REALTORS(R) if a tax credit is made available to all home buyers and that credit need not be repaid then this could result in an additional 555,000 home sales.
This echos my post of two days ago titled “Fix Housing First” with regard to the importance of a [...]
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