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New Residential Housing Starts Slightly Above Forecast for July
Jill Mislinski: The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have now published their findings for July new residential housing starts. The latest reading of 1.206M was...
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New Home Sales At 507K
Doug Short: This morning’s release of the July New Home Sales from the Census Bureau at 507,000 was slightly below general expectations, and the previous month was revised downward by 1K. The...
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Real Estate: The Downside Risk In 20 Major U.S. Cities
Harry Dent: I like to practice what I preach. I don’t own my home. I rent. I’ve been renting my house in Tampa since October 2005, because I’ve seen what’s coming – the bursting of the greatest real...
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New Residential Housing Starts Below August Forecast
Jill Mislinski: The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have now published their findings for August new residential housing starts. The latest reading of 1.126M was...
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Median Home Price and Salary Required In 27 Major Cities
Doug Short: Tim Manni, the Managing Editor at HSH.com, features a periodic update entitled “The Salary You Must Earn to Buy a Home in 27 Metros”. The opening tease is a question: “How much salary do...
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New Home Sales At Interim High Of 552K
Doug Short: This morning’s release of the August New Home Sales from the Census Bureau at 552,000 surprised general expectations, and the previous month was revised upward by 15K. The Investing.com...
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Home Price Rose 5% Year-over-Year In July; Growth Is Mostly In The West
Doug Short: With this morning’s release of the July S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price we learned that seasonally adjusted home prices for the benchmark 20-city index were down fractionally month over...
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Home Ownership Remains Near Its Interim Low
Doug Short: Over the last decade the general trend has been consistent: The rate of home ownership continues to decline. The Census Bureau has now released its latest quarterly report with data...
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Insights From London and Marrakech: Global Real Estate To Pop
Harry Dent: I’ve been home in Tampa for a few days now, but the past few weeks I’ve done a bit of traveling – in London and in Marrakech, Morocco. Not that I missed much – the market climbed all last...
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The Truth About The Housing Bubble
Chad Shoop: For generations, it was always a good bet to invest in a place Americans call home. Housing had almost always increased in value, and you received a multiple of whatever you invested into...
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Time To Get Bullish On This Real Estate ETF
Rick Pendergraft: It is rare that you see two different opportunities in two different directions from the same stock, but that is exactly what I see from the iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF...
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China Could Deliver Another Blow To The U.S. Housing Market
Harry Dent: The New York Times ran an article on Sunday talking about how the Chinese invasion of U.S. real estate is only expanding. They aren’t just buying condos in Manhattan or McMansions in...
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For The Average American, Owning A Home Is Increasingly Unaffordable
Tyler Durden: One month ago, in its traditionally cheerful assessment of the US housing market, the NAR’s Larry Yun sneaked in an unexpected warning: “Home prices ascending near or above double-digit...
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February Pending Home Sales: 7 Month High
Jill Mislinski: This morning the National Association of Realtors released the February data for their Pending Home Sales Index. “Pending home sales rose solidly in February to their highest level in...
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Existing-Home Sales Bounce Back In March
Jill Mislinski: This morning’s release of the March Existing-Home Sales bounced back from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.33 million units from 5.07 million in February....
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Existing-Home Sales In April Signal Slowly Building Momentum
Jill Mislinski: This morning’s release of the April Existing-Home Sales increased from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.45 million units from an upwardly revised 5.36...
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This $250 Million Condo Is a Sign Manhattan’s Real Estate Bubble Is Ready To Pop
Harry Dent: I’ve been doing a lot of traveling lately. Our lease ran up at our home in Tampa many weeks ago, and my wife and I have been staying at several of our favorite spots up and down the east...
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FHFA House Price Index Up 0.2% In April
Jill Mislinski: The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has released the U.S. House Price Index (HPI) for the most recent month. Here is the opening of the report: U.S. house prices rose in April,...
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Existing-Home Sales In May Highest Pace In 9 Years
Jill Mislinski: This morning’s release of the May Existing-Home Sales increased from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.53 million units from a downwardly revised 5.43...
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April New Home Sales Drop 6.0% Month-over-Month, Worse Than Forecast
Jill Mislinski: This morning’s release of the May New Home Sales from the Census Bureau came in at 551K, down 6.0% month-over-month from a revised 586K in April. Seasonally adjusted estimates for...
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