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Understanding Existing Home Sales

The National Association of Realtors Existing Home Sales Report, which measures closings on existing homes, showed that sales were down 7.7%…

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Fed Getting Inflation Under Control

In an attempt to curb inflation, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) hiked the Fed Funds Rate by 50 basis points last week to target a…

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Inflation is Heading in The Right Direction

Last week the Producer Price Index or PPI was released showing that overall inflation on the producer level increased by 0.3% for the month…

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Pending Home Sales Lower, But There’s a Light at the End of the Tunnel

The National Association of Realtors released its Pending Home Sales report and it showed that signed contracts were down by 4.6% in October…

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Home Builders Need Costs to Drop to Regain Optimism

Earlier this month the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) released its home builder survey and the national index dropped from 38…

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Taking a Look at Existing Home Sales

The National Association of Realtors Existing Home Sales Report, which measures closings on existing homes, showed that sales were down 5.9%…

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As Inflation Cools, Mortgage Rates Should Follow

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its Consumer Price Index report for October showing overall inflation increased by 0.4%. This was ac…

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Housing Cools Yet Still Resilient

The National Case-Shiller Home Price Index Report was released last week. This is widely considered the “gold standard” or the industry’s le…

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Keeping An Eye on Inflation

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis has released their Personal Consumption Expenditures report for the month of September. This is the Fed…

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Existing Home Sales Cool, But Still Healthy

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) released their Existing Home Sales housing report and it showed that closings on existing homes w…

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Possible Inflation Peak

The Producer Price Index, which measures wholesale inflation, rose 0.4% in September. This reading was .2% higher than expected. Year over y…

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Pending Home Sales Decline, but Optimistic Going Forward

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) released their Pending Home Sales report, which measures signed contracts on existing homes acros…

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