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market trends: Market Recovery: Are You Ready? - 02/14/08 01:17 PM
Market Recovery:  Are You Ready?
After months of doom and gloom, industry-wide panic, and talk of recession, we sure could go for some good news!  In one of my recent blogs, I suggested that the market may have bottomed out in October.  Housing inventory has not increased since then, and at the end of January, although closed sales were at a 5-year low (partially attributable to the usual holiday slump), the pending contracts to close in February had jumped by 25%.
 
What do these numbers indicate?  They further suggest that we are currently at the bottom of a very shallow trough, … (3 comments)

market trends: Will the Media Tell Us? - 01/04/08 03:56 PM
Will The Media Tell Us?
 
For the better part of a year now, the airwaves and front pages have been inundated with apocalyptic predictions for the real estate market.  Granted, the market has struggled to stay afloat amidst a flood of foreclosures and a decrease in mortgage accessibility.  Yet in many sectors of the real estate industry, improving numbers indicate that the market may be on the upswing.  In fact, according to market analysts with RealtyTrac, foreclosures nationwide dropped 10% from October to November of 2007:  that's the largest drop in foreclosures since April of 2006 (Source:  RealtyTimes).
 
"But … (6 comments)

market trends: Market Watch and 7 Real Estate Indicators - 01/04/08 03:52 PM
Market Watch and 7 Real Estate Indicators:
National housing analyst Tim Sullivan of the Sullivan Group has put together a seven-point test to track the market's recovery.  We will be following these indicators closely during 2008 to help keep your finger on the pulse of the Market:
 
1.         Supply and Demand ratio needs to drop to a 7 month absorption rate. This is starting to happen.  Supply dropped almost 10% between November and December of 2007, from 56,000 to 52,000.  The absorption rate dropped from 20 to 15 months valley wide.
 
2.         Home sales need to stop slowing.Resales … (3 comments)

market trends: Maricopa County Real Estate Market May Have Bottomed Out in October 2007 - 01/04/08 03:13 PM
Maricopa County Real Estate Market May Have Bottomed Out in October 2007:
Along with my monitoring of Tempe Real Estate market trends, I have been tracking two Real Estate numbers for all of Maricopa County that suggest that the Real Estate slump may have bottomed out in October of 2007.
The two numbers are
1.         The total number of resale properties listed for sale each month and
2.         The total number of properties sold.
These numbers can give us a ratio that help determine the absorption rate, namely, how long would it take at the current rate for the inventory … (1 comments)

market trends: Arizona Housing Market Outlook... Not So Dour? - 12/10/07 01:31 PM
There is a silver lining to the "dour" Arizona housing market and economic outlook reported yesterday by the AZ Republic.
I have to put my two cents' worth into the discussion on the Housing Market after a misleading headline appeared on the front page of the AZ Republic 12/6/07.
The headline reads: "Housing market hit harder than analysts predicted".
Last week I attended a seminar given by one of the economists quoted -- Elliot Pollack. I'm sure he wasn't thrilled that his 120-screen powerpoint presentation was boiled down to the following quote: "There is no quick fix.  We have a long way … (3 comments)

 

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