Practitioner confidence in
housing market conditions continues to build.
Not exact matches
Sentiment
continues to benefit from falling unemployment, favorable
housing market conditions, low gas prices, and high stock prices among other things.
At the same time though,
conditions in the
housing market remain difficult, with
housing prices and rents
continuing to fall in Perth.
* Consider
continued co-ownership of a
house depending on
market conditions.
Barring a major change in the state's economic strength, we expect these
housing market conditions to
continue for the foreseeable future.»
One big question is will interest rates stay low long enough and economic
conditions continue to improve to allow more people to enter the
housing market or will there be one more reason to push the largest generation in history away from the American Dream.
Historic low borrowing costs, relatively healthy job
market conditions and solid population gains should
continue to support
housing demand and residential construction in B.C. and Ontario.
«The number of improving
housing markets has risen for six consecutive months, and 36 states now have at least one metropolitan area on the list,» notes NAHB Chairman Bob Nielsen, a home builder from Reno, Nev. «This indicates that despite the many challenges that
continue to drag on a
housing recovery — including the tight lending environment for builders and buyers — improving
conditions are slowly but surely spreading from one
housing market to the next.»
«Today's report is a good sign that builders are cautiously moving to replenish their depleted inventories of single - family homes in response to increasing buyer demand,» says Barry Rutenberg, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder from Gainesville, Fla. «In certain
housing markets across the country, the momentum toward recovery is gradually building, though tough credit
conditions and inaccurate appraisal values
continue to weigh down that progress.»
With record - low mortgage rates, appealing prices and an upgraded
housing forecast this year (the National Association of REALTORS ® expects existing home sales to reach 4.66 million in 2012), current
market conditions continue to generate interest among first - time home buyers.
We are also seeing the long - term improvement in
housing conditions continuing to take hold in a growing number of local
markets.
In the meantime, a
continuing yawning supply imbalance, a weakening U.S. job
market and tight lending
conditions point to a prolonged period of
housing market lethargy, with the risk of still lower home prices and construction, and relatively depressed sales volumes.»
«Home improvement spending
continues to benefit from the last years» upswing in
housing market conditions including new construction, price gains, and sales,» says Chris Herbert, Managing Director of the Joint Center.
In such a case, the analyst needs to examine recent percentage changes in prices, and assess whether they will
continue at the same or different pace based on the prediction of demand - supply
conditions in the local
housing market during the forecast horizon.