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Realtor Pending Home Sales Index shows Real Estate Market Leveling off

Dennis Norman

 Today the National Association of REALTORS released it’s December Pending Home Sales Index showing an increase of 1.0 percent in the index from November (seasonally adjusted) and a 10.9 percent increase from last year.

Here are highlights from the report:

December’’s pending home sales index (seasonally adjusted) was 96.6 (the index is based upon 100.0 being [...]

Let’s play ’spin the data’

Dennis Norman

Or should I say “It’s all in the headline”?

So what am I talking about?  The pending home sales data that was released by the National Association of REALTORS today, of course. Actually I could be referring to any data on the housing market whether new home sales, foreclosure rates, interest rates, existing home sales or inventories [...]

Pending home sales rise for ninth consecutive month

Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist, NAR

Is the increase real or have the tax-credits created an “artificial” market that cannot be sustained?

Today the National Association of REALTORS(R) issued their Pending Home Sales Index Report for October showing pending sales in the U.S. rose again for the ninth consecutive month – marking the longest streak since since [...]

Pending home sales rise for eighth consecutive month

Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist, NAR

Today the National Association of REALTORS(R) issued their Pending Home Sales Index Report for September showing pending sales in the U.S. rose again for the eighth consecutive month – marking the longest streak since since NAR began the pending home sale index in 2001.

As I have expressed previously, I’m somewhat cautious [...]

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 remain stable…

By: Dennis Norman

The National Association of REALTORS(R) announced that pending home sales for October, which were just released, show housing sales may be stabilizing which is good news.  Even though the index showed a .7% decline from September and a 1% decrease from October 2007, Laurence Yun, the chief economist for the National Association of [...]