The Consumer Confidence Index, reported by the Conference Board, rose in September. Compared with last month, consumers were more optimistic about both the current situation and the near term outlook. The Consumer Confidence Index rose to 104.1, from 101.8 in August. The present situation index rose to 128.5, from 125.3, and the expectations index increased to 87.8, from 86.1. Consumers’... Read More ›

S&P Dow Jones Indices released the Case-Shiller (CS) National Home Price Index for July. The index rose at a seasonally adjusted annual growth rate of 5.0%, faster than the 2.1% in June. House prices have decelerated since the beginning of 2016 due to the sharp decline in existing home sales at the end of 2015. But, home prices started to... Read More ›

Sales of newly-built, single-family homes fell 7.6% on a monthly basis in August to a 609,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate according to estimates from the Census Bureau and HUD. However, the monthly change masks the fact that the August pace of new home sales was the second strongest since the end of the Great Recession. New home sales for August... Read More ›

The US Census Bureau, along with the US Department of Commerce (DOC) and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), fund and publish the Survey of Market Absorption (SOMA). The SOMA contains data on recently completed apartments and condominiums, including the asking rent and sale prices of these units. The median asking price of privately financed, unfurnished, nonsubsidized... Read More ›

Existing home sales, reported by the National Association of Realtors, soften further in August. Total existing home sales, which are completed transactions that include single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, declined to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.33 million units from a downwardly revised 5.38 million units in July. Existing single family sales fell to a seasonally adjusted annual... Read More ›

Low interest rates have pushed some housing markets around the world into bubble-risk territory, according to a new report out of UBS.

Low interest rates have pushed some housing markets around the world into bubble-risk territory, according to a new report out of UBS.

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