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...
Reports on the sales of existing homes for October were released on November 28 by the National Association of Realtors. On a slightly optimistic note, sales were up one-half percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.24 million units compared to the upwardly revised figure of 6.21 million in...
Buyers have been hoping for it and sellers have been dreading it but home prices have apparently started a long-expected decline while existing home sales continued their five month slide. On the price front the change is not dramatic, at least not yet. The monthly survey conducted by the National Association...
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 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...
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 National Association of Realtors (NAR) has issued its report for both December existing home sales and for the entire last year. Total sales for the year, including single-family houses, townhouses, condos, and co-ops totaled 7,072,000 units. This was 4.2 percent higher than the 6,784,000 recorded...
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...
Two studies released in the last few days indicate that both new home construction and the sale of existing homes continue to merrily roll along. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported on Monday that, according to preliminary figures, existing home-sales had set yet another new record in...
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...