Tag Archives: Housing Supply

Existing-home sales were up despite ongoing inventory issues. How will the lack of housing supply affect new home sales for the month of April?

Pending home sales have improved for 18 straight months, but is the news all good?

Many housing experts and industry analysts have been talking about it for months, and it remains a problem.

While the consistent decline in foreclosure inventory and completed foreclosures may be indicative of a healing housing market, the side effects of falling foreclosure metrics may be a cause for concern heading into the spring homebuying season.

It's a holiday week, but key metrics that drive housing aren't taking time off.

What is the effect of low housing inventory on both new and existing home sales?

This week the Federal Reserve is looking to raise interest rates, key housing indicators will show how the market is doing, there's a look at key economic indicators as 2015 closes, and we get a preview of how consumers are looking at things going into 2016. Read on.

Single family rentals, SFRs, were supposed to be a short-term opportunity when real estate hit bottom, but now it's emerging as a new class that big money is looking at. So what's happening?

NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun stated that "Unless sizeable supply gains occur for new and existing homes, prices and rents will continue to exceed wages into next year and hamstring a large pool of potential buyers trying to buy a home."

The June data determined that new single-family home sales were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 481,000, 6.8 percent below the revised May rate of 517,000 and is 18.1 percent above the June 2014 estimate of 408,000.