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By Michael S. Canter and Janaki Rao Credit risk-transfer securities (CRTs) have made the US mortgage market safer by shifting default risk from taxpayers to private investors. The latest attempt to overhaul the housing finance system isn't likely to change that. A recent memo from Presid...

By Catherine Yoshimoto, Director, Product Management Over the past decade, e-commerce has evolved to accommodate an increasingly on-demand economy. While it was once adequate to wait 5-7 business days after ordering an item online, a growing number of consumers are placing a premium on sho...

By Robert Hughes Sales of new single-family homes fell 6.9 percent in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 673,000, down from a multiyear high of 723,000 in March. Sales had posted three monthly gains in a row after hitting a low of 564,000 in December (see top chart). Sales are u...

The graph here shows the point at which I said early last summer housing sales had turned over (for the worst) and would remain on a downtrend indefinitely, and it shows how that prediction has panned out. Existing home sales were down again nationally (4.4%) in April (fourteenth month in a ...

We've began tracking existing home sales over the last several months, using Zillow's seasonally adjusted price and sales volume data to estimate the total aggregate valuation of these sales at the regional and state level in order to get a sense of the relative health of the real estate...

Real Estate Earnings Recap In this report, we analyze the recently released NAREIT T-Tracker data to review REIT fundamentals over the past quarter and analyze what they could mean for the rest of 2019. As REIT stock valuations continue to trade at the mercy of macroeconomic forces, it's...

By Robert Hughes Sales of existing homes fell 0.4 percent in April to a 5.19 million seasonally adjusted annual rate. Sales are down 4.4 percent from a year ago and 8.0 percent from the recent peak of 5.64 million in November 2017. Sales declined in two of the four regions tallied: sales f...

Brick-and-mortar department stores - the lucky ones still open - are on schedule to be toast. E-commerce sales in the first quarter soared 12.4% from a year ago to $127.3 billion (not seasonally adjusted), the Commerce Department reported on Friday. Last year, e-commerce sales blew throu...

By Robert Hughes Housing activity improved in April as starts and permits posted gains. However, details varied widely among the segments and regions. Total housing starts rose to a 1.235 million annual rate from a 1.168 million pace in March. The dominant single-family segment, which acco...

Homebuilder sentiment saw a stronger-than-expected increase in May, as the NAHB sentiment survey rose more than expected to 66 from 63 and expectations of 64. Even after this month’s increase, sentiment remains well off its cycle high of 74 from December 2017, but it does erase much of ...