The National Association of Realtors' (NAR) presently claims 1.2 million members. We figure those are figures from 2007, pre-dating the worst of the housing free fall and that there have been many dropouts since then. These NAR membership numbers include more than just agents who sell property for a...
The National Association of Realtors has backpedaled on previous housing forecasts with it U.S. Economic Outlook report for June released on Wednesday. NAR has consistently asserted that the housing bubble would not burst but rather would deflate and, when it happened, there would be a soft landing ...
Existing-home sales had a rough 2006 fourth quarter according to figures released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors. Total existing-home sales including single-family houses, condos, townhouses, and coops were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.24 million units during the quarter...
Accentuate the positive. Gild the lily. Lots of cliches come to mind after reading the third quarter summary of existing home sales released on Monday by the National Association of Realtors. While the statistics showed that sales of previously owned homes and condos were down 12.7 percent from the third...
Home buyers have waited for years but perhaps the agony is over. It is official; the National Association of Realtors® has confirmed that we are now in a buyers' market . According to the NAR June report on existing home sales issued last week there is now a 6.8 month supply of existing homes on...
The National Association of Realtors, in a statement released on Tuesday, said that housing sales and prices in 2006 will remain strong but will not achieve the record levels of 2005. Sales of existing homes are expect to drop to 6.74 million this year, a decline of 4.7 percent from the record high 7...
The news on Monday was not good. It looked, in fact, like the housing boom was over and that was the thrust of a lot of the media headlines. Not that a market crash seemed likely, but it did seem as though the housing bubble had developed a tiny little leak. The National Association of Realtors released...