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Introduction While we are waiting for Friday’s employment report, and with the continuing drought in significant economic numbers due to the government shutdown, I thought I’d look at a few things to watch. A look at housing construction vs. construction employment By now i...

Seattle prices drop 5.1% in five months, most since Housing Bust 1; San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Portland all decline. This is the most obvious one: Seattle. House prices in the Seattle metro dropped 0.7% in November from prior month, according to the Case-Shille...

As best as we can tell, the residential real estate market in the U.S. peaked in March 2018, where since that month, it has declined in 33 of 40 states for which we have recent price and sales data. That's going by our estimate for the total aggregate value of transactions for existing home ...

As Hedgeye subscribers already know, our predictive tracking algorithms are calling for the U.S. economy to transition from Quad 4 (growth and inflation slowing) to Quad 3 later this year (growth slowing, inflation accelerating) . As a result, we view REITs as one of the best long pla...

30-year fixed-rate mortgage averages 4.45% for the week ending Jan. 24, 2019, unchanged from the previous week, according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Survey. More news on: iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF, D. R. Horton Inc., KB Home, Financial stocks news, News on the U.S. economy,...

By Robert Hughes Sales of existing homes fell 6.4 percent in December to a 4.99 million seasonally adjusted annual rate. Sales are down 10.3 percent from a year ago and 12.8 percent from the recent peak of 5.72 million in November 2017. Sales declined in all four regions tallied: sales wer...