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Pending Home Sales Drop In January; Weather Named as Cause

Dennis Norman

 Today the National Association of REALTORS released it’s January Pending Home Sales Index showing a decrease of 7.6 percent in the index from December, 2009 to January 2010 (seasonally adjusted) and a 12.3 percent increase from last year.

Here are highlights from the report:

January’’s pending home sales index (seasonally adjusted) was 90.4 (the index is based upon 100.0 being [...]

Pending Home Sales Increase in July marking six months of increases; Boom or Bust?

Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist, NAR

Today the National Association of REALTORS(R) issued their Pending Home Sales Index Report for July showing pending sales in the U.S. were up for the sixth consecutive month, the best streak since NAR began the pending home sale index in 2001.

Today’s report is not the only recent report shedding some [...]

Real estate market continues to show life
Sales up for fifth month in a row

Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist, NAR

The real estate market continues to show signs of life and continues to point to the possibility that we have hit bottom.  Today the National Association of REALTORS(R) issued their Pending Home Sales Index Report for June which showed pending sales were up for the fifth consecutive month, the first [...]

Buyers are returning to the market – Home sales up 4 months in a row

By: Dennis Norman

Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist, NAR

It appears that lower prices along with low interest rates are bringing buyers back into the market as the market continues to show signs of life and gives us hope that we may be near the bottom.

The National Association of REALTORS(R) issued their Pending Home Sales Index Report [...]

Pending home sales index jumps in April: Third month in a row sales have increased

By: Dennis Norman

Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist, NAR

Today the National Association of REALTORS(R) issued their Pending Home Sales Index Report for April which showed a significant increase of 6.7% on the index, over March.  April makes the third month in a row the index has increased.

Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said “buyers are responding to very favorable [...]

Pending home sales for March increase 3.2%

By: Dennis Norman

Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist, NAR

Yesterday the National Association of REALTORS(R) issued their Pending Home Sales Index Report for March which showed, for the second consecutive month, an increase. 

Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said “This increase could be the leading edge of first-time buyers responding to very favorable affordability conditions and an $8,000 tax [...]

Pending Home Sales Increase in February

By: Dennis Norman

Yesterday the National Association of REALTORS(R) issued their Pending Home Sales Index report for February which showed, for the U.S., a 2.1% increase over January.

Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said “Pending home sales have a way to go for there to be a meaningful increase, but recent increases in shopping activity are hopeful [...]

Pending Home Sales Declines Again In January

By: Dennis Norman

The National Association of REALTORS(R) just released their pending home sales index for January which shows pending sales (houses under contract to be sold but have not closed yet) are down 7.7% nationwide from December and down 6.4% from a year ago.   

The actual index for the U.S. for January was 80.4.  An index of  100 is equal to the [...]

Home sales continue to decline

By: Dennis Norman

The National Association of REALTORS(R) just released their pending home sales index for November which shows pending sales (houses under contract to be sold but have not closed yet) are down 4% nationwide from October and down over 5% from a year ago.  With all the recent bad economic news this is not surprising. 

The Northeast [...]