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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...
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It seems that nary a week can pass without a subprime disaster of some type. This week is no exception although there was at least a bit of variety due to bad news coming from other parts of the housing industry. Here is the rundown. On Tuesday Moody's Investors Service announced it was downgrading its...
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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 ...
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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...
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Is it the end of the end of the housing bubble ? The National Association of Realtors (NAR) seemed to think so as it issued its November report on the sales of existing houses, the second month in a row when sales showed slight improvement over the previous month. New home sales also showed signs of...
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As usual, fresh on the heels of the National Association of Realtors monthly report on the status of existing home sales , the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development have released their joint monthly report on the sales of new homes for the month of October 2006....
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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...
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New home prices took a heck of a hit in September according to information released by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Thursday. This disquieting news came hard on the heels of a National Association of Realtors survey released on Wednesday that showed...
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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...
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One of the most vocal proponents of the Chicken Little philosophy of real estate is John R. Talbott, who in 2003 wrote the best selling book The Coming Crash in the Housing Market . His new book Sell Now! The End of the Housing Bubble was published this year and has occasioned a lot of press and a certain...