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Pending Home Sales, Home Prices, Vacancy Rates, and more: The Week in Housing

by Ryan Hinricher | May 2, 2011

A busy week in the housing market included reports on pending home sales, new home sales, home prices and an update on home ownership and vacancy rates. Enjoy! Pending Home Sales Rise The National Association of Realtors reported a rise in pending home sales for the month of March. Pending home sales rose 5.1% to [...]

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Vacancy Rates, Price Declines, Interest Rates, and Mortgage Applications: The Week in Housing

by Ryan Hinricher | April 11, 2011

This week we cover the big drop in vacancy rates, lower home prices (yes, more bad news), interest rates, and mortgage application activity. Apartment Vacancy Rates Fall Vacancy rates fell in the multi-family sector. REIS reported that apartment vacancy dropped from 6.6% to 6.2% in the first quarter of 2011. This is the biggest drop [...]

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Declining Cities, Vacancy Rates, and Forecasting Home Prices: The Week in Housing

by Ryan Hinricher | January 10, 2011

During the first full week of the new year, Reis reported on vacancy rates, we get an interest rate update from Freddie Mac, a 2011 forecast on home prices from RadarLogic, and lastly a study from the Housing Research Institute of America on declining cities. Apartment Vacancy Declines While vacant homes seem to stacking up [...]

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Commercial Real Estate

Commercial Real Estate Vocabulary 101 – Part 1

by Khary Reynolds | September 20, 2010

If you read my previous post, 3 Things You Need to Know to Invest in Commercial Real Estate, you know that I stated that it is critical that investors know the vocabulary of commercial real estate. So, in order to expand on that concept, I wanted to do a series of posts discussing the different [...]

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Housing Market Insight – Week of September 13th

by Ryan Hinricher | September 13, 2010

Last week’s housing market sentiment seemed to turn slightly as we saw an about-face in interest rates, and purchase applications. We’ll also discuss the housing inventories, vacancy rates, and what home types you should be investing in now. Vacancy Rates Remain High Despite Low Housing Starts While housing starts remain extremely low (just above a [...]

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Commentary

Are You Taking Advantage of the Current Real Estate Market Conditions?

by Peter Giardini | August 19, 2010

Back in November 2009 I wrote an article titled “Home Ownership Below 50%… Is That Possible?” One of the major points of that article was a prediction from a real estate agent that home ownership would continue to decline from its high of 69.7% at the height of the housing boom to below 50%. Provocative prediction… [...]

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Vacancy Rates Still Hover Around Record Highs; How to Protect Yourself

by Ryan Hinricher | May 10, 2010

The Commerce Department recently announced that the number of vacant homes eclipsed a record 19million units in the first quarter of 2010. This shows that despite the stabilization taking place in the housing market, there is still a long way to go before we reach normal market conditions. More concerning than the near record 10.6% [...]

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