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Nationally, the total valuation of aggregate existing home sales has continued to dip in June 2019 from April 2019's level . All but the U.S. Census Bureau's Northeast region has seen dips from recent peaks. Preliminary and revised state level existing home sales data through June 2019 is n...

Introduction Nearly every month, I repeat the same mantra over and over with regard to housing: Interest rates lead sales Sales lead prices Prices lead inventory Wednesday morning’s report on housing permits and starts for August provides yet another example among the ampl...

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Fueled by falling new home prices and falling mortgage rates, the U.S. new home market is experiencing a rebound in its fortunes. Starting with falling new home sale prices, preliminary and revised data reported by the U.S. Census Bureau for July 2019 shows that the average and median sale...

It was a busy morning for data on home prices with the releases of the June readings for S&P/CoreLogic Case-Shiller and the FHFA's home price indices. Both indices essentially told the same story for home prices: still growing, but at the slowest rate in years. The S&P/CoreLogic readin...

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Originally published on August 19, 2019 The housing starts and permits report this morning for July adds to the positive data looking forward to H2 2020 (or, possibly, less bad - but that's another discussion). First, here are overall permits (red) and starts (blue): While the very vol...

The NAHB's Housing Market Index for August saw its second straight month with a modest increase bringing it to 66 compared to expectations of an unchanged 65. Although the index has been grinding higher since plummeting to its late 2018 low, it is still well off of its December 2017 record hig...

The residential real estate market is less affordable now than anytime since before the financial crisis. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is facing a housing conundrum. The market is in the midst of a 15-month slump, with home price gains and sales having slowed dramatically and per...

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