Sentences with phrase «while house price growth»

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And while slower price growth suggests Canada is already «moving towards a more balanced housing market,» today's prices are still, in the bank's view, «elevated» after «a 10 - year build - up.»

According to Realtors, an uptick in existing U.S. home sales in the final three months of 2017 pulled down housing inventory to an all - time low, while keeping home - price growth at its recent robust pace.

While revenue initially surged as property taxes caught up with the rapid growth in home prices associated with the pre-recession housing bubble, they fell sharply once home prices plummeted, and since then have risen only slowly.

While it is a favourite among income buyers, it's still a relatively inexpensive sector thanks to worries around higher housing prices and slower loan growth.

«Ongoing job growth continues to fuel demand for housing, while wage growth is helping to offset the effects of rising mortgage rates and keep home prices affordable,» said Robert Dietz, chief economist at the NAHB, in a statement on the Index.

«While the housing market gained a little more momentum last month, sales are still below year ago levels because low inventory is limiting choices for prospective buyers and keeping price growth elevated.»

«While the housing market gained a little more momentum last month, sales are still below year - ago levels because low inventory is limiting choices for prospective buyers and keeping price growth elevated.»

As a result, while we're still seeing signs of an urban comeback in real estate prices, corporate relocation decisions and even population trends in some older cities with lots of housing stock, most of the population growth in the U.S. is again happening on the fringes of fast - growing metro areas in the South and West.

While the housing market has enjoyed abnormally high rates of growth during the last two and a half years of recovery, prices are back to long run historic levels, signaling an effective end to the correction to the correction.

Dr. Lawrence Yun, NAR Chief Economist said, «While the housing market gained a little more momentum last month, sales are still below year ago levels because low inventory is limiting choices for prospective buyers and keeping price growth elevated.»

An overly simplistic take on real estate would say that land is a finite resource while population growth and resulting demand for housing will remain a constant, pushing prices higher each year.

House price growth has been rising at an unsustainable rate, while construction and land prices continue to increase.

And while prices aren't yet up to prerecession levels, 30 states had more than two quarters of growth under their belts by the end of 2011, according to data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency.