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By Dennis Norman, on February 26th, 2010
Dennis Norman
According to the latest report from the National Association of REALTORS(R), existing home sales in January decreased 7.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted-annual rate of 5.05 million units in January from a level of 5.44 million units in December, however this does represent an increase over a year ago when the rate was 4.53 million units (seasonally adjusted).
Lawrence Yun, [...]
By Dennis Norman, on January 25th, 2010
Dennis Norman
NAR’s “seasonally-adjusted” numbers show sales down 16.7 percent for the month…2009 finishes with 5,156,000 homes sold…My projection for the year was 5,143,000 homes….missed it by 13,000 (2/10 of 1 percent) hmm..not bad for a “non-economist”
According to the latest report from the National Association of REALTORS(R), existing home sales in December decreased 16.7 percent to a [...]
By Dennis Norman, on December 24th, 2009
Dennis Norman
NAR’s “seasonally-adjusted” numbers show sales up 7.4 percent for the month…”actual” numbers show a 5.2 percent decrease….Sales up 44 percent from last year, lest we not forgot last year was the worst in over 10 years…
According to the latest report from the National Association of REALTORS(R), existing home sales in November increased 7.4 percent [...]
By Dennis Norman, on November 23rd, 2009
Dennis Norman
National Association of REALTORS Report:
According to the latest report released today from the National Association of REALTORS(R), existing home sales in October jumped 10.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted-annual rate of 6.10 million units in October from a revised level of 5.54 million in September, and are 23.5 percent higher than the 4.94 [...]
By Dennis Norman, on October 23rd, 2009
Dennis Norman
According to the latest report released today from the National Association of REALTORS(R), existing home sales in September jumped 9.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted-annual rate of 5.57 million units in September from a level of 5.09 million in August, and are 9.2 percent higher than the 5.10 million-unit pace in September 2008. [...]
By Dennis Norman, on September 24th, 2009
Dennis Norman
According to the latest report released today from the National Association of REALTORS(R), existing home sales in August dropped 2.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted rate of 5.1 million units down from a level of 5.24 million units in July. This drop follows four-consecutive months of increases in the pace of existing home sales and, if we [...]
By Dennis Norman, on August 21st, 2009
Dennis Norman
According to the latest report released today from the National Association of REALTORS(R), existing home sales in July rose 7.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted rate of 5.24 million units up from a level of 4.89 million units in June. Home sales data for July 2009 represents a 5.0 percent increase over home [...]
By Dennis Norman, on August 12th, 2009
Dennis Norman
According to the latest report released today from the National Association of REALTORS(R), existing-home sales in the second quarter showed healthy gains from the first quarter in the vast majority of states.
Existing home sales (including single-family homes and condos) by state rose 3.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.76 million [...]
By Dennis Norman, on July 23rd, 2009
Dennis Norman
Today the National Association of REALTORS(R) released its existing home sales report for June showing an increase in sales for the 3rd month in a row and home prices declining less sharply.
Existing home sales, including single-family, town-homes, condominiums and co-ops increased 3.6% in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.89 million units. [...]
By Dennis Norman, on June 23rd, 2009
Dennis Norman
By: Dennis Norman
Today the National Association of REALTORS(R) released its existing home sales report for May showing an increase in sales for the 2nd month in a row. This is the first time we’ve seen two consecutive months of sales increases in almost 4 years.
Sales for May were at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 4,770,000 homes which [...]
By Dennis Norman, on May 28th, 2009
Dennis Norman
By: Dennis Norman
Yesterday the National Association of REALTORS(R) released its existing home sales report for April showing a slight increase in sales of 2.9% over March.
Sales for April were at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 4,680,000 homes which is down 3.5% from last year, which means in year over year numbers things are improving because last months annual rate [...]
By Dennis Norman, on May 27th, 2009
Dennis Norman
By: Dennis Norman
Existing home sales in Florida rose in April by 18 percent over a year ago and were up slightly from March.
Condo sales in Florida were up 21% in April from a year ago and up over 6% from March.
This increased activity is, at least in part, a result of significantly lower prices…the [...]
By Dennis Norman, on April 23rd, 2009
Dennis Norman
By: Dennis Norman
Today the National Association of REALTORS(R) released its existing home sales report for March showing a slight decline of 3% from February. This modest decrease following last months modest increase of 5.1% may show the market is starting to balance out.
Sales for March were at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 4,570,000 homes which [...]
By Dennis Norman, on March 24th, 2009
By: Dennis Norman
Dennis Norman
Yesterday the National Association of REALTORS(R) released its existing home sales report for February and it contained some good news. According to the report existing home sales in the U.S. increased 5.1% in February over January although the rate is still down 4.6% from the same time last year.
The Northeast region [...]
By Dennis Norman, on January 27th, 2009
By: Dennis Norman
I am not an economist and don’t have a PhD…in fact I think the closest I ever came to an academic course in economics was a business management class in high school. However, having said that, I think it is pretty clear that what is going on in the housing market now is a [...]
By Dennis Norman, on January 1st, 2009
By: Dennis Norman
If you live in Los Angeles California or Orlando Florida, then the answer unfortunately is yes. However if you live in St. Louis Missouri, Louisville Kentucky, Boston Massachusetts, Houston Texas, Greenville South Carolina or any of dozens of metropolitan areas around the country the answer is no. So why then, for the past 2 days has the media been [...]
By Dennis Norman, on December 23rd, 2008
By: Dennis Norman
This morning the National Association of REALTORS(R) released data for existing home sales for November. The numbers show sales of existing homes down 8.6% nationwide versus October and down 10.6% versus last year. The Northeast saw the biggest decline in sales being down 12.0% versus last month and 18.0% versus last year. The west region only [...]
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