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November 2011 Market Update

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While home sales in September were down slightly from a relatively strong month in August, they were up from a year ago, giving encouraging signs of a strengthening market and potential for stabilizing, if not appreciating, home prices.

These signs include an increasing demand, shown by the number of people shopping for homes, and the decreasing inventory of homes for sale, in conjunction with some of the lowest levels of new housing construction since 1960s when the Beatles first came to the United States.

Of the homes sold in September, 32% were first-time home buyers.

With more and more people entering the market, the persisting obstacle for most is still the restrictive lending environment.

“We need to remove the roadblocks to a housing recovery—not place more obstacles in the way of financially qualified buyers,”  NAR President Ron Phipps said.

With an increasing demand and shrinking inventory, it is hoped that banks will begin to see the market potential and start to lend to otherwise creditworthy home shoppers, opening the road to a more rapid recovery.

While consumer confidence still remains at all-time lows, retail spending increased 1.1% last month, a positive sign of growth fueled by the approaching holiday season, which could propel the U.S. into a promising new year.



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