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2019
The past few weeks have been steady as she goes, so I'm going to mail in this post. Interest rates took a nice dip last week and continue to hold ground just north of 4%, lending support to the housing market, while real estate remains stable with moderate softening. Existing home sales came in...
03/30/2019
If you've followed my previous blogs, I've postured that the slowdown in real estate was a brief pause, rather than a substantial decline in the market. February's existing home sales bounced back with a blistering 12% increase over January, but still down 2% year over year.....I'll take it! Th...
03/23/2019
Mortgage interest rates dipped to the mid-4% range in the fourth quarter of 2018 largely fueled by concerns over a European economy that can't seem to get out of first gear over the past 10 years, and ongoing China trade negotiations. More recent housing and employment data has put economists a ...
03/09/2019
GDP Beats Forecasts In my last blog post, I reported sales of newly built home increased 40% month over month in December lending optimism that maybe the fourth quarter slowdown in housing would be a short-lived breather followed by a pick up in sales as we near the spring market. Unfortunately,...
03/03/2019