First-time home buyers can expect an easier home shopping experience this spring, as market conditions shift in their favor, welcome news for buyers who have struggled to break into the market. Entry-leveli home values are growing at their slowest pace since ...
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Read More »The U.S. housing market showed continuing signs of cooling in many of the nation’s largest metros in December. According to realtor.com®‘s December housing report, the largest markets saw a 10 percent increase in inventory, compared to a nationwide average of 5 ...
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Read More »National housing prices as a whole are slightly overheated and residential real estate markets are experiencing minimal downward pressure on the demand for home ownership, according to a new study from faculty at the Florida Atlantic University College of Business. The study’s ...
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Read More »The third consecutive month of lower year-over-year home sales in October contributed to the first year-over-year inventory increase in a decade according to the RE/MAX National Housing Report for October 2018. Meanwhile, the Median Sales Price recorded one of its lowest ...
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Read More »Seventy-five percent of Americans believe their local housing market is “cooling off” – among them, 72 percent say they are not surprised – according to results from ValueInsured’s Q4 2018 Modern Homebuyer Survey. This shift in market perceptions follows five consecutive ...
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Read More »Recent data from Nationwide’s Health of Housing Markets Report (HoHM Report) show a further worsening of housing market sustainability. For the first time since 2010, Nationwide’s proprietary Leading Index of Healthy Housing Markets (LIHHM) does not forecast a positive outlook for the ...
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The LegalShield Housing Activity Index, a leading indicator of housing starts and a component of the broader LegalShield Law Index, ticked down in March, but remains up 2.8 percent compared to a year ago, suggesting there is reason for optimism ...
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Read More »The 2018 spring buying season is expected to be one of the most competitive seasons in years, driven by spill-over buyers from last year and record-breaking inventory lows. Despite their willingness to resort to brash tactics to get a leg ...
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Forty-one straight months of inventory declines and housing price gains are prompting buyers to expand their home search beyond their immediate metro markets to under the radar secondary markets, according to a new report by realtor.com, a leading online real ...
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Read More »Nationwide’s latest forward-looking barometer of the U.S. housing market health continues its positive outlook despite unsustainably strong house price gains weighing on affordability. The primary reason: housing demand. Household formation growth picked up sharply over the last quarter to move ...
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