There’s an old adage in real estate: location, location, location. But ever since the Federal Reserve began its series of inflation-fighting interest rate hikes last year, a new mantra has emerged: mortgage rates, mortgage rates, mortgage rates. Higher rates had the immediate impact of dampening homebuyer affordability and demand. But this year, we’re seeing further […]
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Market updates concern the latest information about the real estate market.
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A Return to ‘Normal’? The State of Real Estate in 2022
Last year was one for the real estate history books. The pandemic helped usher in a buying frenzy that caused home prices to soar nationwide by a record 19.9% between August 2020 and August 2021.1 However, there were signs in the fourth quarter that the red-hot housing market was beginning to simmer down. In the […]
The New Normal: A Strong Housing Market Expected to Continue into 2021
2020 will be known for a lot of things, and a record-breaking year for real estate will certainly be one of its more unexpected legacies.” ~ Daryl Fairweather1 And he’s right: most of us would have expected the housing market to suffer from circumstances like a once-in-a-hundred-years pandemic and historic inventory shortages. But, rather than […]
Antioch Real Estate Stats for September 2019 [VIDEO]
Question: How is the market in Antioch, Ca? Answered by Libby Guthrie Video Transcript Hi, I’m Libby Guthrie with Keller Williams Realty in Northern California. And I’m going to talk today about the statistics for the city of Antioch, California. And what’s going on in the market as of today. It’s September 2019, we’re […]
How’s the National Real Estate Market?
National Real Estate Market Snapshot [September 2019] The U.S. unemployment rate is at a 50-year low, and consumer confidence remains high. In fact, the University of Michigan’s latest Surveys of Consumers found that Americans have their most positive personal finance outlook since 2003.1 However, if you follow national news, you’ve probably heard speculation that we […]
What’s Ahead for the Real Estate Market in 2018
“How’s the Market?” you ask? A few weeks ago, we wrote an update on the local real estate market for October. But what about what’s happening to the national real estate market? We got you covered there, so read on. While no one can predict the future with certainty, most experts expect to see modest […]
Real Estate Market Change Report for October 2018
The Change Has Come! In our last quarterly real estate market update, I noted how the inventory, (that’s the number of homes listed for sale) had grown for two quarters in a row. We were waiting for one more quarter to see if this was an uptick that would go back down or the beginning […]
