by Susanne Dwyer | Sep 30, 2018 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, National, News, Trending |
Are homeowners warming up? With prices rapidly rising, homeowners have been reluctant to sell, fearful of being unable to afford another home—a catch-22, because inventory is limited as it is, and compounded further when homes are kept off the market. Now, their...
by Susanne Dwyer | Sep 30, 2018 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, National, News |
Even as homeowners, millennials are drawing the short straw. According to the 2018 Zillow Group Report on Consumer Housing Trends, newly released, millennial sellers—even with the proverbial “upper hand”—are having to change their closing date or cut their...
by Susanne Dwyer | Sep 27, 2018 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, National, News, Trending |
For the housing market, gaining ground is proving to be a struggle. On an annual basis—and for the eighth month in a row—pending home sales slipped, according to the August National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI). Activity backtracked...
by Susanne Dwyer | Sep 25, 2018 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Trending |
The foot on the gas is letting up. The explosive growth in home prices is slowing, according to the latest S&P CoreLogic/Case-Shiller Indices, which found July prices rose 6 percent year-over-year—an easing from 6.2 percent in June, and a March peak of 6.5...
by Suzanne De Vita | Sep 24, 2018 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, National, News |
According to the August Zillow® Real Estate Market Report, home prices and rents slowed as summer wound down, with prices up 6.5 percent year-over-year—a departure from 8.2 percent this spring—and rents unchanged. Based on the Zillow Home Value Index and the Zillow...
by Susanne Dwyer | Sep 20, 2018 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, National, News, Trending |
August existing-home sales stabilized, ending a regressive streak, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) reports. At 5.34 million, activity neither decreased nor increased from July, but was down 1.5 percent from the prior year. Inventory month-over-month also...