The National Association of Realtors® ( NAR ) announced on Monday that it is launching a new campaign , reaching out to consumers "with the facts about homeownership and the value of real estate as a long-term investment." NAR's Public Awareness Campaign is centered around a new website, www.HousingMarketFacts...
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 problem with the majority of real estate surveys and reports is that they are by definition lagging indicators. So while some "experts" are predicting the end of the real estate world and others are assuring us of a soft landing or a gradual deflation of the housing bubble , or employing other euphemisms...
The housing market threw the world another curve on Thursday. After five straight months of declining sales of existing homes, a sixth dreary month was pretty generally expected. Instead the National Association of Realtors announced that February sales of previously-owned homes had jumped 5.2 percent...
Both the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and the Department of Commerce (Census Bureau) /U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released figures on Tuesday confirming that U.S. housing sales are continuing on a record trajectory. NAR announced that existing-home sales hit an all time...