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Home Builder Confidence Soars

Home builders have been hampered recently, due to lack of labor, land and supplies. As demand finally comes back to the housing market, many builders have had trouble meeting it; others have slowed production intentionally to take advantage of rising … Continue reading

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Home Builder Confidence Soars

Home builders have been hampered recently, due to lack of labor, land and supplies. As demand finally comes back to the housing market, many builders have had trouble meeting it; others have slowed production intentionally to take advantage of rising … Continue reading

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Home Builders Get Jitters for First Time in a Year

Of the three components making up the index, current sales conditions fell one point to 51, still the only component solidly in the positive. Sales expectations over the next six months rose one point to 50, but buyer traffic remained … Continue reading

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Home Builders Still Feel Better, Despite ‘Cliff’ Concerns

December’s gains in sentiment are not as dramatic as the jump in November, as some builders are likely concerned about the possibility of going over the so-called “fiscal cliff.” Some builders have already reported laying off workers and delaying projects, … Continue reading

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Credit Clips Homebuilder Confidence

After a summer of significant monthly jumps in confidence among the nation’s home builders, fall appears to be bringing in a chill. Builder sentiment edged up just one point in October, according to an industry association index, but credit issues … Continue reading

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Mortgage Applications Point to Higher Priced Homes

A response to a recent RealtyCheck blog on home prices included the following: “Someone needs to explain to Ms. Olick what these “price declines” really represent because they most assuredly do not measure how much home values have changed. They … Continue reading

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Housing Hype: Recovery Turns to Relapse?

the fundamentals might not be supporting the sentiment was met with harsh criticism. And then suddenly it wasn’t. A slew of new housing data last week disappointed the analysts and the stock market, and all of a sudden you started … Continue reading

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Did Warm Winter Steal Spring Housing?

As if we really needed a reminder that today’s housing market is still very fragile, the first installment in a slew of housing data to be released this week came in below expectations. Home builder sentiment, as measured by the … Continue reading

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If You Build It, When Will the Home Buyers Come?

Sales of newly built homes fell around 2 percent in May from the previous month, but that was a little better than expectations, given the lousy home builder sentiment number we got this month and the huge supply of competing … Continue reading

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Struggling to Make a House Call on Confidence

Today’s report on consumer confidence, or the striking lack of it, is yet another sign that housing is going to be in a very sticky state for a while. It’s hard to say whether housing is weighing on confidence or … Continue reading

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