The challenge of housing affordability coupled
with tight supply may be preventing overall housing sentiment from gaining momentum as income growth isn't keeping pace with the cost of housing.
Price gains partly driven
by tight supply and low inventories of homes for sale.
Copper prices have risen sharply in recent months
amid tight supply and low worldwide inventory levels.
«While the combination of Chinese stimulus and
tight supply led to a significant commodity price rally in 2016, the reverse will likely be true in 2017,» he says.
Home - price growth and
tight supply making renters uncertain about whether it's a good time to buy a home.
Home sales had stayed surprisingly brisk during the latest economic downturn, helped
by tight supply, a mild winter, and mortgage interest rates near historic lows.
Aug 1, 2017 — American Honda Motor Co., Inc. today reported total July sales of 150,946 Honda and Acura vehicles, driven by the success of core models even as
tight supplies of certain products contributed to a slight decrease of 1.2 percent vs. July 2016.
Existing - home sales rose 3.4 percent from March to April with
tight supplies in markets like Miami helping to seed the rejuvenation, according to National Association of Realtors data released today.
More properties were sold above their asking price this year,
as tight supply conditions continued to heat up market competition in the first half of 2013, according to the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ®» (C.A.R.) «2013 Annual Housing Market Survey.»
Nevertheless, looking ahead to 2011 the prospects for Irish food and drink exports remain positive, helped by strong global demand for commodity products and a relatively
tight supply situation in a number of key product categories.
According to a report from Taiwanese technology news website DigiTimes, two factors are set to make the demand for Super AMOLED displays to rise in China — fluctuating prices and
tight supply from Japan Display, a joint venture between Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi and one of the largest display suppliers.
With
tight supplies due to Hurricane Harvey impacts gas stations that purchase fuel on the open market may not be able to acquire fuel supply since pre-existing supply contracts will be met before gasoline is placed in the open market.
While a modest uptick is expected in 2017 (mostly U.S. tight oil and Canada), the spillover effect of this drawback in investment is in most analyst's views likely to be
tight supply starting perhaps as early as late 2018, especially if the OPEC cuts hold and the US has really plateaued.
With the Mi 6 already
facing tight supply in its home country, it's unclear if this will also delay its release in other markets such as India.
If the three - month rainfall outlook from the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) comes to fruition, it is likely to
see tight supplies in certain regions, particularly through the mid part of the year.
«However, increased demand in the unaffected areas, combined with
already tight supplies, would support further price gains.
It's one of many such reasons put forward to explain rising home prices in Toronto and Vancouver,
including tight supply and foreign demand.
Farmers are earning huge profits on their wheat, soybeans, cotton and other crops; strong demand for (and
relatively tight supplies of) grain, oilseeds and other key food inputs encouraged them to use large volumes of fertilizer (notably potash, phosphate and nitrogen) to boost their crop yields.
Despite tight supplies of Odyssey and certain CR - V, Pilot and Ridgeline models, Honda truck sales managed a solid showing against a record July 2016, with HR - V having its best month ever and CR - V surpassing 30,000 units for the month.
Brisk sales and
tight supply usually combine to push prices higher; while the median price of a Portland home sold in April was up 5.5 percent from a year ago to $ 290,000, the supply issue would suggest the price gains be bigger, but Portland is a sticky market.
Homebuying has been weaker than expected this spring, as
tight supply limits the number of potential sales.
«Homes for sale are going under contract a week faster than a year ago, which is quite remarkable given weakening affordability conditions and
extremely tight supply.
Despite cooling measures, Hong Kong leads the Quarter1 2015 Global House Price Index rankings (up 19 % year - on - year), due to
tight supply pushing up mainstream prices.
This sterilizes the investor's funds, and prevents them from being used to buy physical precious metals, which would interfere with the price rigging crime by increasing physical demand for and the price of gold, given its
consistently tight supplies.
HYUNDAI — KIA +5 % The Koreans lagged the industry overall, but they're coming off a strong performance last year, and they're also
claiming tight supplies of popular models.
Sales of the Ford Fusion, Chevy Impala, Honda Odyssey and CR - V, Range Rover, Dodge Charger, Jeep Wrangler, and Ford Explorer have been limited by
especially tight supplies in certain regions of the country, dealers and automakers say.
This comes after an investigation discovered a significant number of industry insiders − particularly realtors − are buying then flipping condos themselves, for six - figure profit (sometimes a 200 % increase on their initial investment), further
squeezing tight supply and driving up prices for ordinary buyers.
It's been in
constantly tight supply, prompting my colleague Chris Welch to document his frustrations with the terrible job Google was doing of shipping its phones.
In his latest note to investors, KGI Securities analyst Ming Chi - Kuo says the iPhone X will be in
tight supply during the Christmas shopping season.
«Historically, it takes 3 - 6 weeks or more to ship new iPhone models after they are available for preorder, due to
initial tight supply and robust demand.
It's unclear at this point what has caused
such tight supplies, but it certainly seems Apple's latest flagship smartphone is harder to get hold of than in previous years.
The iPhone X is known to have some supply - line issues that will likely see
incredibly tight supplies of the phone when it first launches.
The report also reveals that memory chip suppliers are concerned «whether the upcoming iPhone's migration to advanced 3D NAND flash memory chips would be smooth enough to
avoid tight supply or a shipment delay.»
«Healthy local job markets
amidst tight supply means many areas will remain competitive with prices on the rise,» says Yun.
«This will only further
hamper tight supply and put major investors in direct competition with traditional buyers.»
Florida's housing market is
registering tight supplies and rising prices, according to Florida Realtors President Maria Wells of Stuart.
«Demand is modest,» he admitted, «But when you overlay that
on tight supply, it is really giving us pricing power and rental growth like I've never seen before.»
«With the inventory not really increasing, we may begin to see further
tight supply when the spring buying season returns next year.»
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While tight supply is expected to keep home prices on an upward trajectory in most metro areas in 2018, both the uptick in mortgage rates and the impact of the new tax law on some high - cost markets could cause price growth to moderate nationally,» Yun says.
Tight supply chain and 100 % factory usage this spring and summer coupled with Apple's disruptive iPad effectively had a 1 - 2 punch impact: delaying most tablet makers from coming to market as early as they wished.
It had been an agonizing search because it was right in the middle of a hot niche, which meant there was a
very tight supply of candidates.