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Cash Offers Foil Homebuyers
With prices hitting or approaching bottom in markets nationwide and record number of foreclosures available, professional investors armed with cash-rich investors are emerging as factor in the lower end of the residential market.
The Pending Supply
By: Steve Cook; Wed, Jul 15, 2009
Perhaps you've heard of the pending demand for real estate-prospective buyers who have postponed taking action until they perceive conditions have optimized. There's also a pending supply of real estate and it's large enough to have a serious impact on the housing markets if a recent study is correct.
Can We Wait for the Echo?
By: Steve Cook; Mon, Jun 22, 2009
It's clear the "echoes" will spawn a record number of households and boost housing demand but it's not such a given that they will become homeowners, at least right away. In fact, in the near term, demographic forces favor the rental over the for-sale market.
A Shadow Threatens Home Values
By: Steve Cook; Thu, May 21, 2009
It's called the "shadow inventory" and it's scarier than a ghost because it is very real. It's hanging over your local real estate market ready to ambush property values at the first sign of a rebound.
Difficult Housing Recovery Ahead
By: David Lereah; Sat, May 16, 2009
Recent data suggest the worst may be over for the housing markets. But only when home values stabilize will there be a true recovery in housing.
Housing Recovery May Be in Sight
By: David Lereah; Tue, May 12, 2009
There are more than subtle signs that the housing markets may be recovering and the worst may be over. Recent data releases support this notion.
Reality Check on Inventory
By: Steve Cook; Mon, Apr 27, 2009
Today's real estate economy watchers are focused on inventory as they look for a break in the...
Pre-retirees Perk Up Retirement Market
By: Steve Cook; Tue, Apr 14, 2009
According to a recent national survey of Coldwell Banker® real estate professionals, over half-53 percent--of those who work in popular retirement areas are seeing younger retirees (ages 60 and under) looking to purchase homes in their markets...
Bottom, Bottom, Wherefore Art Thou, Bottom?
By: Steve Cook; Tue, Apr 7, 2009
The Web is littered with predictions, forecasts, hunches and wild guesses about the long anticipated housing bottom, but only two things are certain. The first is that almost all of today’s bottom diviners will be wrong. The second is that no one will know for sure whether we have reached bottom of the real estate depression until it is past and we are into a period of recovery.
Struggling to Recover
By: David Lereah; Tue, Feb 3, 2009
Like a tired heavyweight boxer receiving blows to the head, some crushing economic reports released this past week kept the economy and housing markets in retreat and further away from recovery. The first blow was the December new home sales release which saw new home sales plummet 14.7 percent to an unimaginable 333,000 annualized units.
Harbingers for a Better Housing Market
By: David Lereah; Tue, Jan 20, 2009
Here are some signs that are likely to signal a market turnaround for the housing market. We define a turnaround as a steady increase in home sales from a trough.
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- Congress Passes Homebuyer Tax Credit
By: Steve Cook; Fri, Jan 22, 2010
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