Real Estate Markets
The median annual home price information for 2007 is now available at Salt Lake County Home Prices , Utah County Home Prices , and Davis County Home Prices. Home prices went up in the vast majority of zip codes in all 3 counties, but not at the same pace as 2006.
Green building trends, and environmentally conscious living, are growing in momentum all across the United States, and included in that movement is the city of Boston, where a first of its kind green residential development recently opened to the public. The Macallen Building in northern South Boston opened to residents in June of 2007 (see [...]
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Here is an interesting article in the Utah Business Magazine on why Utah real estate may not suffer the same as Florida, California and most of the rest of the country. It explains that we are now in more of a balanced market with home prices still increasing, and that the strong economic growth is helping [...]
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The 2nd quarter 2007 home prices are now available for Salt Lake County, Utah County and Davis County. On the surface everything looks OK with the vast majority of zip codes seeing their home prices showing double digit increases compared to prices in the 2nd quarter 2006. That is until the look at the underlying data. Take [...]
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Home foreclosures were up 4 basis points from the same time last year. While this is obviously not good news it does need to be put in perspective. Foreclosure rates actually fell in 24 states, and the overall foreclosure rate is still below the 10 year average. All in all the increase in foreclosures is [...]
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Experts are predicting that the slow housing market will continue through the end of the year and well into next year. Fueled by the subprime problem the number of foreclosures are not expected to peak until next year which will put further pressure on the U.S. real estate market. The market in Salt Lake is [...]
Yesterday new home start figures were released which showed an increase of 0.8% from Feb to March. That’s the good news. Also on the same day builder confidence showed a downtown because of the increasing number of cancellations and a decease in sales due to the sub prime mess-up. Here is my take on the [...]
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NAR just released pending existing home sales data for Feb, http://www.realtor.org/rmodaily.nsf/pages/News2007040301 Home sales were up 0.7% which while not the greatest increase ever seen is a step in the right direction. NAR claims it would have been better but poor weather dampened sales. The question is when will the sub-prime fiasco impact these figures and how bad [...]
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