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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...

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 ...

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...