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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of September 12, 2011 MARKET RECAP Many pundits are talking about pricing these days, with most of the talk centered on an impending drop in national home prices. The odd thing is, most data releases show home-price improvement. Clear Capital's ...
09/11/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of September 5, 2011 MARKET RECAP One of the more curious opening sentences in housing news this past week was, “Home prices pulled, at least temporarily, out of their downward spiral....” We say curious because most of the data over the pas...
09/04/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of August 29, 2011 MARKET RECAP The woes of homebuilders and anyone dependent on home building continue. The July report on new home sales shows that the annual sales rate has fallen to 298,000 units, hitting a five-month low. The good news is t...
08/30/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of August 22, 2011 MARKET RECAP Perseverance is a virtue, and the nation's homebuilders are displaying plenty of perseverance, even if they are not necessarily displaying it happily. The homebuilders' housing index remained unchanged in August, ...
08/21/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of August 8, 2011 MARKET RECAP Over the past couple weeks we've featured good news on home prices. This week, the good news continues... sort of. Clear Capital reports that home prices improved by 4.1 percent nationally in the second quarter...
08/09/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of August 1, 2011 MARKET RECAP We were encouraged by the housing news and data this past week. First, there was more good news on pricing. S&P/Case-Shiller's 10- and 20-city composites were up 1.1 percent and 1.0 percent, respectively, in Ma...
08/01/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of July 25, 2011 MARKET RECAP Homebuilders are a little happier in July than they were in June. The homebuilders’ sentiment index increased two points to register at 15 this month, while the index on expectations for future sales jumped seven poi...
07/28/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of July 18, 2011 MARKET RECAP Are we there yet? Any parent is familiar with this repetitive question from a restive child during a long car ride. Many adults have taken to asking the same question, wondering if the three-year roller-coaster ride th...
07/17/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of July 4, 2011 MARKET RECAP Are we looking at the making of a new trend? Last week, the FHFA home price index posted a modest gain. This week, the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index showed that prices rose in 13 of the 20 cities it tr...
07/03/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of June 27, 2011 MARKET RECAP When transactions are your livelihood, it can be difficult to muster a smile when there are fewer of them. There were fewer transactions in existing-home sales, which fell 3.8 percent to a 4.8 million annualized rate ...
06/26/2011