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Housing Market Outlook and Forecast

Dennis Norman

This week I attended an event at the St. Louis Association of REALTORS® in which Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist for the National Association of REALTORS® was the featured speaker and gave his take on the housing market as well as his housing market outlook.

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Only market doing OK are lower-price homes according to Realtors; Inestors think twice about trying to flip anything more expensive..

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 [...]

Existing homes sales down 2.7 percent in August but up 3.4 percent from a year ago

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 [...]

Pending home sales increase for the sixth straight month; Is this recovery?

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 [...]

Home sales see record increase in July; Good news for the Real Estate Investor that wants to buy or sell investment property

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 [...]

Commercial Real Estate Slowing; Apartments looking OK

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 [...]

The real estate market continue to show positive signs; Sales up in 39 states

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 [...]

Real Estate Market continues to show life
June sales up 3.6%

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 [...]

The market continues to show signs of life- Pending home sales up 4 months in a row

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 [...]

Existing Home Sales Up Again! Prices down over 16% in Past Year

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 [...]

Pending home sales index jumps in April: Third month in a row sales have increased

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 [...]

Existing home sales in U.S. increase 2.9% in April – Prices hold steady

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 [...]

Pending home sales on rise for 2nd month in a row; Up 3.2% for March

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 [...]

Congress could help sell a half a million homes

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 [...]