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10 Real Estate Trends to Watch in 2013
Five years and 16 million foreclosures after the 2008 housing crash, most Americans have not lost faith in real estate. In a survey this summer of more than 2,000 adults by home buyer website Trulia, 61 percent of respondents predicted that prices in their local market would rise next year, 58 percent thought prices would
Housing Inventory, Already Low, Dropped Further in January
The number of homes listed for sale, which stood at an 11-year low at the end of last year, fell even further in January, according to a report released Thursday. There were just 1.48 million homes listed for sale at the end of January, down by 5.6% from December and by 16.5% from one year
IF YOUR BUSINESS MODEL IS NOT PREPARED FOR THESE HOME BUYERS IN 2013, SEEK THE ADVISE AND SERVICES YOU NEED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
With the housing market bottoming in 2012, economists and other experts are becoming increasingly optimistic about theU.S. housing market in 2013. “Assuming our leaders in Washington come to some sort of agreement that keeps the economy growing , here is what should happen with these buyer demographics,” Investors: Investors and, yes, even flippers will continue
HALF WAY HOME: HOUSING RECOVERY CROSSES 50% MARK
Jed Kolko Trulias Chief Economists suggests that Trulia’s Housing Barometer leaps up again, with the housing market 51% back to normal in November Each month, Trulia’s Housing Barometer charts how quickly the housing market is moving back to “normal.” We summarize three key housing market indicators: construction starts (Census), existing home sales (NAR), and the
“EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT HOUSING IS FLASHING GREEN”
Home prices finally hit a bottom in 2012. So will 2013 be the year of recovery or relapse? Potential buyers now have something they haven’t had in a long time: urgency (save for a few months when the government was paying people to buy homes with a first-time home-buyer tax credit). This next year will
GEORGIA UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DROPS TO 8.5% – 4 YEAR LOW
State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler says Georgia’s unemployment rate dropped due to more job growth and fewer layoffs. Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 8.5 percent in November, down two-tenths of a percentage point from 8.7 percent in October, according to a Georgia Department of Labor report released early Thursday. The rate was 9.5
HOUSING MOBILITY RATE REBOUNDS
The U.S. Census finds that a greater percentage of Americans moved residences this year compared to 2011’s record low. Slightly more Americans changed residences in 2012 compared to last year, according to data released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2012, 36.5 million Americans (age 1 year and older, to be precise) moved,
GEN Y: MEET THE NEXT 1 PERCENTERS
BUSINESS NEWS DAILY REPORTS THE …. THE High-rolling members of Gen Y will soon be the mainstay of marketers of luxury products and services, a new study shows. The affluent segment of these millennials (those ages 18-34, living in households that earn more than $100,000 in annual income) already has the largest current spending for
ATLANTA HOUSING DEMAND RISES
ATLANTA HOUSING DEMAND ON THE RISE…. Atlanta Business Chronicle by Jacques Couret, Senior Online Editor Date: Thursday, November 1, 2012, 1:41pm EDT Housing demand now outpaces supply in metro Atlanta and demand is expected to continue to grow with unemployment waning, Metrostudy reported Thursday. Housing demand now outpaces supply in metro Atlanta and demand is