Tag Archives: Spring Market

Rising Optimism in Housing Doesn’t Compute

An increasing number of Americans are starting to believe in home price appreciation again. Perhaps it’s the excitement of an early spring market, perhaps the fact that unemployment has been steadily easing, or perhaps just the fact that we haven’t … Continue reading

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Did Warm Winter Steal Spring Housing?

As if we really needed a reminder that today’s housing market is still very fragile, the first installment in a slew of housing data to be released this week came in below expectations. Home builder sentiment, as measured by the … Continue reading

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Are Big Home Builder Stocks Too Hot?

Improvement in the jobs market, improvement in potential buyer traffic, improvement in existing home sales, no change in record low mortgage rates…no surprise the analysts are starting to upgrade the nation’s public home builders. Not to mention that we’re getting … Continue reading

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Parsing Home Prices Proves Precarious

Another day, another double-dose of home price reports, a home sentiment survey and a weekly report on mortgage applications. All seem to point in different directions. Both Lender Processing Services and CoreLogic released home price data, the former for December … Continue reading

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Home Sales Bounce: Catching up to Spring?

Sales of existing homes took an unexpected and rare jump in August, rising 7.7 percent from July. Realtors say it’s the result of delayed sales from the spring market, which they previously characterized as disappointing. The results were unexpected because … Continue reading

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Homebuilders Face New Hurdles

Builders are on track to construct the fewest single family homes in history this year. Total housing starts in July were down 1.7 percent, month to month, which may not sound like a lot, but when you break the number … Continue reading

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Home Builders Face New Hurdles

Builders are on track to construct the fewest single family homes in history this year. Total housing starts in July were down 1.7 percent, month to month, which may not sound like a lot, but when you break the number … Continue reading

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Home Price Headlines Hide the True Picture

How do I loathe home price day? Let me count the ways. The rash generalizations, the seasonal vs. non-seasonal adjustment confusion, the month-to-month vs. year-over-year, the contention among all the varied home price reports from the various and varied entities … Continue reading

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