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Surging prices are a demand killer, but real estate industry laments the medicine didn't work. The relentlessness of falling home sales is starting to baffle the real estate industry that had expected plunging mortgage rates to fire up sales: Across the US, sales of "existing homes" (previ...

By Robert Hughes Sales of existing homes fell 1.7 percent in June to a 5.27-million seasonally adjusted annual rate. Sales are down 2.2 percent from a year ago and appear to be trending roughly flat in the 5,000 to 5,500 range (see chart). Sales declined in the two larger regions but rose ...

By Raymond Jacobs, Managing Director, Franklin Real Asset Advisors; Marc Weidner, Managing Director, Franklin Real Asset Advisors; Woon Pin Chong, Managing Director, Franklin Real Asset Advisors Many observe the impacts of e-commerce growth as decimating commercial retail properties, leav...

Homebuilder sentiment for July saw a modest bounce, rising from 64 up to 65 compared to expectations for a reading of 64. While sentiment has seen a nice improvement from its late 2018 low, builders are nowhere near as optimistic right now as they were right before the GOP tax bill - which lim...

Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF ( EDV ) is an ETF for the ultra bond bulls. The ETF with its low costs and extremely long duration bond holdings has delivered amazing results with relatively low volatility. Source: Vanguard EDV's returns from its inception are almost exactly the ...

I wanted to revisit one graph, because I think it tells the story so well about what's happening in many US cities while lending standards are tight. In the process, I realized that I should have adjusted for inflation, and in the process of doing that, I realized I had a minor excel workshe...

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It was supposed to be the Chinese government that was going to rescue the global economy. Once the rationalizations ended and officials around the world realized there was serious economic weakness building at the end of 2018 instead of a globally synchronized inflationary recovery, the green ...

Following up our analysis of the market for existing homes in the U.S., preliminary and revised data suggests that falling mortgage rates have coincided with a reversal in the late-2018, early-2019 decline in new home sales. The following chart tracking the trailing-twelve-month average of...

Since peaking in late November 2018, mortgage rates in the United States have fallen sharply, dropping by more than a percentage point from a peak of an average of 4.87% to 3.83% in June 2019. For existing home sales, the falling interest rates have roughly coincided with a rebound in the ...