If you’re trying to figure out where real estate is headed in the coming months, should you listen to the Federal Reserve — or do you focus on the latest pending home sales numbers?
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Real Estate Outlook: Federal Reserve Beige Book
If you’re trying to figure out where real estate is headed in the coming months, should you listen to the Federal Reserve — or do you focus on the latest pending home sales numbers?
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Real Estate Outlook: Federal Reserve Beige Book
When it comes to the current housing recovery, never assume the path leads straight up.
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Real Estate Outlook: Reading the Numbers
When you get reports of increases in both new housing starts and existing home and condo sales in a single week, that’s got to say something positive about where real estate is headed.
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Real Estate Outlook: Increase in Housing Starts
One of the most accurate forecasters of housing value movements has just signaled something potentially important: For the first time in a year, according to the national PMI index, overall risk has decreased in the 384 metropolitan markets covered by the survey.
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Real Estate Outlook: National PMI Index
It’s a fairly rare event, but now and then most of the important economic directional signs go positive, and this is one of those weeks.
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Real Estate Outlook: Positive Movement
You can take your economic cues from the Federal Reserve Board’ s latest assessment…or you can take them from the nation’s consumers directly, as measured by the Conference Board’s monthly Consumer Confidence survey.
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Real Estate Outlook: Jumps and Gains
You might have seen the headlines last week about an unexpected drop in housing starts, and you might have thought: Uh-oh. That’s not the direction we ought to be headed in a rebounding economy.
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Real Estate Outlook: Sobering News?
Will housing outperform the overall economy in 2010 as we pull out of the Great Recession?
Real Estate Outlook: Strong Sales Predicted
The drop in the latest pending home sales index got a lot of press attention, but that blip downward shouldn’t be your guide on what to expect for real estate in 2010.
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Real Estate Outlook: The Numbers Are In
Even the grumpiest, grinchiest economist would have to admit that New Year’s 2010 looks a whole lot more positive for real estate and housing than things did last year at the same time.
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Real Estate Outlook: 2010 Stark Contrast to 2009
The real estate recovery continues to roll along with a big 7.4 percent jump in home resales last month, according to the National Association of Realtors.
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Real Estate Outlook: Housing Recovery
When it comes to economic forecasting, there’s nobody as authoritative as the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee. And here’s what the committee said last week in a nutshell:
Real Estate Outlook: Economic Forecasting
If new applications to buy homes are any gauge, the U.S. housing market is warming up, and that’s despite the fact that we’re now into the traditionally quiet holiday season.
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Real Estate Outlook: Housing Warmer Than Weather
Unemployment and foreclosures continue to be huge weights holding back the economy, but housing’s performance is just the opposite: Its signs of rebound keep getting stronger and stronger.
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Real Estate Outlook: Signs of Rebound
This week it’s all about sales. They’re up in all four major regions of the country, and we’re even seeing bidding wars breaking in some scattered markets, according to the latest survey from the National Association of Realtors.
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Real Estate Outlook: Real Estate Market Is Active