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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of January 17, 2011 MARKET RECAP The beginning of the year always produces a flood of opinion on what the next 12 months will bring. Much of the opinion is simply an extrapolation on what was occurring in the closing months of the old year. Never...
01/16/2011
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of December 27, 2010 MARKET RECAP The latest housing data are raising optimism. Existing home sales rose 5.6 percent in November to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.68 million units. More encouraging, prices didn't soften to stimulate sale...
12/27/2010
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of December 20, 2010 MARKET RECAP Much ado was made about a CoreLogic report on foreclosures this past week. The headline went something like this: “The number of U.S. homes worth less than the debt owed on them dropped in the third quarter.” Th...
12/27/2010
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of December 13, 2010 MARKET RECAP This past week was a slow news week. The occasional lull is a good thing: it offers the opportunity to engage in a little introspection. On that front, we became a little more introspective when we stumbled across ...
12/27/2010
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of December 6, 2010 MARKET RECAP When you expect the expected and it occurs, is it really news? We tend to think not, which is why the news on home prices really doesn't seem like news. We knew prices would post a decline, and, sure enough, they...
12/05/2010
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of November 29, 2010 MARKET RECAP Glad tidings were in short supply in housing this past week. Existing home sales posted at a Dickensian 4.43 million annualized units in October, a 2.2 percent decline from September's figures. The median nation...
11/29/2010
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of November 15, 2010 MARKET RECAP We've stated (repeatedly) our belief that housing prices have stabilized. We might be a member of a dwindling minority, especially after perusing recent data from Zillow, which showed that September home prices dep...
11/14/2010
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of November 8, 2010 MARKET RECAP The Federal Reserve was...
11/07/2010
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of November 1, 2010 MARKET RECAP Were we smart or lucky? ...
10/31/2010
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of October 25, 2010 MARKET RECAP We can't say that the post-tax credit lull is officially over, but recent housing data lead us to believe it is. Housing starts again surprised on the upside, increasing 0.3 percent in September to 610,000 season...
10/24/2010