The commercial and residential real estate markets got crushed during the bust and many regions are still
seeing strong price gains back to fair value.
Across the country the pattern varies with
strong price gains in the Pacific Northwest and small price increases in New York and Washington DC.
Existing - home sales rose in August to the second - highest pace on record,
with strong price gains in a market of tight supply.
The Strategic Total Return Fund continues to hold just under 30 % of assets in utility shares, foreign currencies, and precious metals shares (where we modestly clipped our exposure in response to
very strong price gains in recent weeks).
Buy before a boom, and a string
of strong price gains can reap considerable returns; homeowners who bought homes in 2011 or 2012 are experiencing this right now, with several years of outsized price increases averaging close to 5 percent annually (more or less).
«While [home] prices aren't likely to fall anytime soon because of healthy demand, growing inventory may help moderate
the strong price gains that these markets have experienced since market bottom in 2012.»
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The Nymex crude oil futures market on Thursday saw
strong price gains that were mostly due to short covering and a technical bounce from an oversold market.
This marks six straight months of double - digit increases and is
the strongest price gain since October 2005, which jumped a record 16.6 percent from a year earlier.
Colorado (5.9 %), Utah (5.7 %) and Arizona (5.6 %) are expected to be the states that will experience
the strongest price gains in 2018.
No, because
the strong price gains we've seen over the past several years have been fueled as much by housing supply shortfalls and demographic trends as by historically low rates.