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U.S. mortgage rates, at their lowest level in almost three years, aren't likely to bolster  the sluggish home-sales market in the long term, economists said. More news on: SPDR Homebuilders ETF, iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust - Invesco Dynamic ...

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The housing choke collar I have a new post up at Seeking Alpha , discussing how, even though sales went down last year, and have already bottomed, house prices have as usual, followed into decline with a lag. Beyond that, I discuss the concept of a "housing choke collar,' similar to the "...

Nationally, the total valuation of aggregate existing home sales have dipped in May 2019 from April 2019's level . Regionally, almost all of that decline was registered in the U.S. Census Bureau's West region. State-level existing home sales data through May 2019 is now available from Zillo...

By Robert Hughes The Consumer Confidence Index from The Conference Board rebounded in July, increasing by 11.4 points to 135.7, the highest level of the year and the highest since November. The index is constructed so that it equals 100 in 1985. The composite index is just 2.2 points below...

With the release of new home sales this morning, and existing home sales yesterday, it is increasingly apparent that housing has bottomed - just as I said a number of months ago that it would sometime this spring. To the graphs! New home sales (blue in the graph below) bottomed last October,...

Real Estate Weekly Review Ahead of next week's all-important Federal Reserve interest rate decision, US equity markets rallied as the S&P 500 ( SPY ) and Nasdaq ( QQQ ) each climbed to new all-time record highs on a jam-packed week of earnings and economic data. Earnings results have gen...

After having plunged from October 2018 through March 2019, median new home sale prices in the U.S. would appear to be stabilizing in recent months, with their initial trailing year average for June 2019 unchanged from the previous month at $319,300. The decline in median new home sale prices...

I noticed that housing units per adult have actually started to level off. This is interesting because total permits and total starts are still below past averages. So, maybe the new neutral run-rate for new units is less than 1.5 million annually. Maybe the need for new units is less acute ...

30-year fixed-rate mortgage averages 3.75% for the week ending July 25, down from 3.81% in the previous week and 4.45% a year ago, according to the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey. More news on: iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF, KB Home, PulteGroup, Inc., Financial stocks n...