Sentences with phrase «spring buying season»

A mild winter and a stronger job market have helped boost sales ahead of the all - important spring buying season.

The supply crunch probably will get worse during the upcoming spring buying season, economists say, because demand typically rises by more than supply during that time.

Real estate pros report that the weeks between now and the Super Bowl can be some of the most hectic in getting a head - start on what's traditionally considered the busy spring buying season.

«Nationally, home prices have increased twice as fast in Q1 2017 as they had in Q1 2016, and with the typical spring buying season just on the horizon, the next few months could be shaping up to be an impressive start to the busiest buying season,» says Whealton.

«Limited inventory of low - priced homes, coupled with expectations for rising interest rates, likely foreshadow a frenetic, anxiety - filled spring buying season for qualified first - time homebuyers,» Loebs says.

New Research from ValueInsured Reveals Differing Gender Attitudes Likely to Affect Spring Buying Season

For the imminent spring buying season, Laird encouraged households with high financial and psychological risk tolerance to «take advantage of the savings offered by a variable - rate mortgage, which tend to be more competitive than fixed rate mortgages.»

For March 2014, the national house price index was flat — which doesn't sound particularly alarming, until the authors point out that this is the first time in 15 years that house prices haven't increased in March, typically the kickoff of the important spring buying season.

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).

Despite higher borrowing costs and home prices, demand for home purchases has grown in the spring buying season as the economic outlook has continued to improve and bolstered consumer confidence.

With the spring buying season underway, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate on 30 - year, fixed - rate mortgages slipped to 4.55 percent from 4.58 percent last week.

The event came during a spring buying season when many schools are making purchasing decisions for the upcoming school year.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- U.S. home prices rose in May from a year earlier at the weakest pace in 15 months as sales remain modest in the spring buying season.

«The early returns so far this spring buying season look very promising as a rising number of households dipped their toes into the market and were successfully able to close on a home last month.

Home prices typically rise during the spring buying season.

The slower sales pace is due, in part, to harsh weather delayed in most regions that lasted well into the spring buying season.

Spring buying season of 2013 is about to arrive and the numbers for February are already here.

Both rates, effective May 17, undercut mortgage offered by Canada's six - biggest banks, which have been adjusting rates during a spring buying season that's started out soggy.

The event came during a spring buying season when many schools are making purchasing decisions for the upcoming school year.

This allows us to release the product almost a month early which gives us great traction before the spring buying season begins.

«With low supply this spring buying season, it's easy for buyers to get discouraged when their offer is rejected in favor of a higher bid,» he said.

«The spring buying season is off to a booming start,» Smoke says.

«With low supply this spring buying season, it's easy for buyers to get discouraged when their offer is rejected in favor of a higher bid,» he says.

Home values are likely to move higher in the Midwest as the spring buying season approaches, unless the number of homes available increases.»

«This effect is intensified by the start of the spring buying season.

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Real estate pros are also using the winter months to focus on networking (such as through holiday parties that can create plenty of opportunities for meeting new clients or gaining referrals) and taking continuing - education classes to ramp up their skill sets before the spring buying season hits, agents report.

They need to be protected against a potential drop in future business after the spring buying season recedes.

It's February and snow is still covering much of the country, but the spring buying season is just around the corner.

«Many of our Bright MLS real estate professionals, who are at the forefront of the housing market, are predicting a brisk pace for closed sales, especially as the spring buying season continues to heat up.»

«The 2.2 million net new jobs created over the past year generated significant interest in purchasing a home in what was an extremely competitive spring buying season,» says Lawrence Yun, chief economist at NAR.

«The early returns so far this spring buying season look very promising as a rising number of households dipped their toes into the market and were successfully able to close on a home last month,» says Lawrence Yun, chief economist at NAR.

«With a first full look of the spring buying season and six - month update to the forecast, our data through June confirms our initial projection that 2015 would be a non-growth year,» says Alex Villacorta, Ph.D., vice president of research and analytics at Clear Capital.

«Anticipation seems to be building for both buyers and sellers this spring buying season,» says Earl Lee, chief executive officer of HSF Affiliates LLC and president of Prudential Real Estate.

More optimism in the housing market adds an additional dimension to the spring buying season.

The frenzy of the spring buying season has ended, meaning there are fewer houses listed and competing for buyers» attention.

«The spring buying season is right around the corner and current supply levels aren't even close to what's needed to accommodate the subsequent growth in housing demand,» says Yun.

«Overall this spring buying season has been tepid at best.

Samuelson, who is also Move's chief revenue officer, said Move hopes to make the Connection ads available to buyer brokers and agents in every market in the country by the onset of the spring buying season.

The stability in the improving markets list this month is encouraging, with three quarters of all metros tracked by our index considered on the upswing as the spring buying season begins.

And the National Association of Realtorsrevealed that buyer traffic is stronger this winter than it was during the spring buying season last year.

Sales of new U.S. homes plummeted in March, as the spring buying season opened with sharp declines in the Northeast and South.