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Housing # of the week: 95. That’s how many of the 100 largest metros have rising prices, according to Trulia’s Price Monitor for April. continue reading
The Trulia Price Monitor and the Trulia Rent Monitor are the earliest leading indicators of how asking prices and rents are trending nationally and locally. They adjust for the changing mix of listed homes and therefore show what’s really happening to asking prices and rents. Because asking prices lead sales prices by approximately two or more months, the Monitors reveal trends before other price indexes do. With that, here’s the scoop on where prices and rents are headed. continue reading
Would you rather market or sell a newly-built home or a piece of local history? Across America today, you can find homes for sale that were built as long ago as the 19th century or as recently as yesterday. There’s no mistaking a 1920s Dutch colonial, a 1970s A-frame, or a 2000s home tricked out with the latest spa features.
To guide you through the decades, we looked at listings on Trulia from the past two years and found continue reading
This week: blazing home sales-price growth, OK job growth, and a major housing-policy nomination.
An OK jobs report, with some clouds: continue reading
Each month, the Trulia Housing Barometer charts how quickly the housing market is moving back to “normal.”
Download this month’s Barometer to show your clients the housing market is 56% back to normal, up from 43% six months ago.
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- offer your prospectives positive motivation to make their next real estate move now
- learn and share the major factors driving today’s recovery
- brand yourself as the local market real estate expert
Each month, Trulia’s Housing Barometer charts how quickly the housing market is moving back to “normal.” We summarize three key housing market indicators: construction starts (Census), existing home sales (NAR), and the delinquency-plus-foreclosure rate (LPS First Look). For each indicator, we compare this month’s data to (1) how bad the numbers got at their worst and (2) their pre-bubble “normal” levels. continue reading
Spring house-hunting season is upon us. Home searches peak in March and April, and this year the search is especially frantic as inventory is near a 12-year low. Many homes don’t stay on the market for long, so buyers will have to move fast – especially in markets with bidding wars and competing investor activity. But when it comes to searching for a home, as with everything else, moving too fast leads to mistakes and regrets. To find out which regrets are most common – and who is most prone to making decisions they’ll later regret — we asked more than 2,000 consumers what, if anything, they regret about their current home and most recent home-search process. continue reading
If you knew there was someone outside your office door waiting to hand you a suitcase full of cash, would you keep him or her waiting? While it sounds far-fetched, this scenario takes place way too often in real estate.
Don’t be the agent who turns away perfectly viable real estate leads and potential commissions. Pay attention to these six hot leads that could turn into serious business. continue reading
Housing number of the week: 52% — that’s how many people have regrets about their current home or how they chose it, according to Trulia’s quarterly survey of consumers. Top regrets: homeowners wish they’d bought bigger, and renters wish they’d bought, period. continue reading
If you follow the news about real estate, you’ve likely noticed a dramatic direction turn in the tenor of headlines over the last year or so. From underwater seller woes, foreclosure highs and listings lagging on the market with no sale in sight, the stories have turned to reporting on multiple offer buyer woes, interest rate lows and listings flying off the market with no inventory in sight! continue reading
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