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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of September 17, 2012 MARKET RECAP Last week, we broached the possibility that the residential rental real estate market could be forming a bubble. We found it interesting, even if it were only coincidental, that the the Wall Street Journal ran ...
09/15/2012
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of September 3, 2012 MARKET RECAP There is an old investing bromide that goes “the trend is your friend,” which means a directional market can lead to riches. The trend in home prices is surely our friend. Indeed, the S&P/Case-Shiller home price...
08/31/2012
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of August 27, 2012 MARKET RECAP Existing home sales gained traction in July, moving up 2.3 percent to 4.47 million units annualized, to partially reverse a 5.4-percent decline in June. The monthly existing home sales trend has been choppy fo...
08/26/2012
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of July 30, 2012 MARKET RECAP Is it still meaningful to report on the upward trend in home prices? We have to answer “yes,” because there's still a lot of time to make up, considering all the negative reporting that occurred over the past fo...
07/30/2012
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of July 23, 2012 MARKET RECAP Are the home builders foreshadowing the future of the housing market? We sure hope so, because builder sentiment suggests better days ahead. We say that because the home builder sentiment index surged a whopping...
07/21/2012
Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of July 2, 2012 MARKET RECAP It's getting easier to understand why home builder sentiment keeps rising monthly: sales and prices are now in an established uptrend. Indeed, new home sales recorded a very solid 7.6 percent increase in May, pos...
06/30/2012
Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of June 25, 2012 MARKET RECAP No one number can explain a market. We mention that because the headline number on housing starts points to lower new home sales. The headline number says that housing starts declined 4.8 percent in May after ri...
06/24/2012
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of June 4, 2012 MARKET RECAP The data flow usually slows to a trickle during a holiday-shortened work week. That was case this past week, thanks to the extended Memorial Day weekend. That said, the flow didn't completely dry up; there were s...
06/03/2012
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of May 28, 2012 MARKET RECAP As each week passes, the data on housing becomes more encouraging. This past week's data added to the good feelings. Existing homes sales continue to post monthly gains, rising 3.4 percent in April to an annualiz...
05/28/2012
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of May 21, 2012 MARKET RECAP We're at a point in the housing recovery where few people doubt we are actually in the midst of a recovery. Since the beginning of the year, we've been reporting news and data that have generally trended more pos...
05/20/2012