U.S. home sales will likely decline by 18% this year, compounding a 17% reduction from last year – but next year should see a 15% increase in sales activity, according to a forecast from National Association of Realtors (NAR) Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. Speaking at...
More than 80% of the major U.S. metro markets, or 182 out of 221, posted home price gains in the third quarter, according to data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), which noted that 11% of the tracked metro areas registered double-digit price increases...
Pending home sales recorded a 1.1% uptick from August to September, according to data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), which also noted pending transactions were down 11% from one year earlier. NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) for September had a...
Total existing home sales during September declined by 2% from August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.96 million, according to new data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). On a year-over-year basis, sales dropped 15.4% from the 4.68 million...
Lawrence Yun, the chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, is warning that today’s mostly positive jobs report should not be embraced as evidence of an improving economy. “The job market continues to crank out jobs in high figures: 336,000 in...
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