Sentences with phrase «percent last quarter»

Forty - eight percent of real estate professionals expect home values to increase in coming six months, up from 11 percent last quarter; Sixty - eight percent disapprove of Obama's performance as President; Mitt Romney favored over Barack Obama by both real estate professionals and homeowners; Ron Paul pulls 16 % in a three way preference poll

Twenty - seven percent of homeowners expect home values to increase, up from 25 percent last quarter.

Seventy - six percent of homeowners continue to believe their homes are worth more than the recommended agent listing price, down from 79 percent last quarter.

Forty - eight percent of real estate professionals expect home values to increase, up from 37 percent last quarter.

The LIRA projects annual spending growth for home improvements will accelerate from 2.4 percent last quarter to 6.8 percent in the second quarter of 2016.

Home prices in San Jose, Calif. — one of the nation's leading markets since the bust — posted negative 0.3 percent last quarter, marking the area's first foray into the red in five years with currently the lowest quarterly growth rate in the country, according to Clear Capital's recent Home Data Index (HDI) Market Report.

Overall, the vacancy rate for retail space fell to 10.9 percent from 11.0 percent last quarter.

Sixty - nine percent of surveyed agents and brokers indicated that their home buyer clients think homes for sale are overpriced, up from 61 percent last quarter.

Seventy - nine percent of homeowners continue to believe their homes are worth more than the recommended agent listing price, up from 77 percent last quarter.

Thirty - seven percent of real estate professionals expect home values to increase, up from 15 percent last quarter.

Twenty - five percent of homeowners expect home values to increase, up from 15 percent last quarter.

Heading into the busy spring buying season, optimism that now is a good time to buy a home is at its lowest share in the past two years (68 percent; 72 percent last quarter).

Among renters, feelings about buying are further diminished (55 percent; 60 percent last quarter).

The sector's national occupancy rate, based on aggregate statistics from 31 markets, held at 88.8 percent last quarter, according to NIC.

Seventy - six percent of homeowners, conversely, report now is a good time to list their home for sale, up from 62 percent this time last year, but down from 80 percent last quarter.

NAR's quarterly Housing Opportunities and Market Experience (HOME) report reveals 60 percent of renters believe now is a good time to buy a home, up from 57 percent this time last year, but down from 62 percent last quarter.

1NAR's Q2 HOME survey additionally found that 71 percent of homeowners think it's a good time to sell, which is up from 69 percent last quarter and 61 percent a year ago.

The amount of buyers who are confident about their prospects shrank to 68 percent in NAR's quarterly Housing Opportunities and Market Experience (HOME) survey, a decline from 72 percent last quarter.

«A very healthy labor market and stronger confidence and spending from both consumers and businesses boosted economic expansion to a solid 3.0 percent last quarter,» says Yun.

Additionally, compared to the December 2015 survey fewer renters (62 percent versus 68 percent last quarter) believe that now is a good time to buy a home.

Or: «My leadership skills helped my team raise sales by 10 percent last quarter, despite the fact that many of us were new to the department.»

Counterpoint Technology Market Research said Tuesday that Apple's share of the Chinese phone market dipped to 8.4 percent last quarter, down from more than 12 percent a year ago.

Wehner admits that Facebook has increased its estimation of false accounts from 1 percent last quarter to 2 percent to 3 percent this quarter, or 41 million to 62 million monthly active users.

The average smartphone price rose 10 percent last quarter compared to a year earlier — the fastest price increase to date.

Meanwhile, the total number of Chase card transactions that merchants processed jumped by 13 percent last quarter.

Ambac's new business slumped 87 percent last quarter after ratings companies threatened to strip the insurer of its AAA status.

On the other hand, sixty - nine percent of surveyed agents and brokers indicated that their home buyer clients think homes for sale are overpriced, up from 61 percent last quarter.

Thirty - seven percent of real estate professionals expect home values to increase, up from 15 percent last quarter while only 25 percent of homeowners expect home values to increase, up from 15 percent last quarter.

Despite notebooks raking in a gross margin of less than 4 percent last quarter, the market is expected to see an increase in 2012 when ASUS and Acer shift their focus back to the notebook business.

There's a good argument to made that Microsoft should do just that: Barnes & Noble still claims it has one of the largest digital content libraries in the world, and sales in that area were actually up 6.8 percent last quarter.

world's No. 1 e-paper display maker said operating income spiked 76 percent last quarter, thanks to strong demand for e-readers such as the Kindle

With the help of those cheaper devices, Amazon's tablet sales shot up 52 percent last quarter from a year earlier, during a time when tablet sales were down overall worldwide, according to researcher IDC.

But while Apple's iPad shipments grew 48.1 percent over the same quarter last year, Apple's market share slipped for the second quarter in a row (down to 43.6 percent from 46.4 percent last quarter) as No. 2 vendor Samsung continued to nip at the Cupertino company's heels.

Earlier in the week, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said during Apple's Q3 earnings call, «Today 86 percent of the Fortune 500 are deploying or testing iPad within their enterprises, up from 75 percent last quarter.

Net sales climbed 44 percent last quarter to $ 10.9 billion, in line with estimates.

Tapestry is on the comeback path after a robust holiday season: same - store sales for Coach rose 3 percent last quarter, as executives try to elevate its image by reducing markdowns.

Though overall revenue increased just 2 percent last quarter, it jumped 32 percent at Madewell, which has become a bright spot at J. Crew by appealing to millennials.

Average Advertising Revenue Per User (ARPU) growth also received a setback, though it did grow from 13.08 percent last quarter to 15.91 percent this quarter in the US and Canada to reach $ 1,362.

Economic growth fell to a five - year low of 7.3 percent last quarter but investor sentiment was recharged by Beijing's surprise interest rate cut Nov. 22 that is expected to put a floor under the slump.

Sales fell 0.5 percent last quarter from a year earlier to $ 769 million.

The online business grew just 7 percent last quarter, a number that Doug McMillon, the company's president and chief executive, acknowledged at the time was «too slow.»

Revenue at IBM's systems and technology business, which sells mainframes, servers and other hardware, declined 26 percent last quarter.

The second biggest PC maker, Lenovo, saw its new shipment jump 13 percent last quarter, and Samsung and ASUS also posted gains.

GDP shrank 6.1 percent last quarter, which is pretty terrible (and worse that economists expected).

Not exact matches

The market for PCs is shrinking — global demand dropped 11 percent in the last quarter alone — and Dell's market share has been on the decline for nearly a decade.

Last quarter was the company's 20th consecutive quarter of at least 5 percent comparable growth.

The transport bottlenecks have increased the discount buyers take for Canadian oil over U.S. light crude and Cenovus said its differentials averaged $ 24.28 per barrel in the first quarter, a 67 percent jump when compared with last year.

In the first quarter of 2013, for example, U.S. venture capital firms raised $ 2.9 billion from 44 funds — a decrease of 33 percent compared to the same quarter last year, according to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters.

Apple said on Thursday it expects a tax rate of 15 percent in the coming quarter, down from last quarter's projections of 25.5 percent.

But BlackBerry smartphones make up only 2.9 percent of the global smartphone market, down from 4.9 percent during the second quarter last year, says Framingham, Mass. - based research firm IDC.