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There’s Only Half the Inventory of a Normal Housing Market Today

There’s Only Half the Inventory of a Normal Housing Market Today Wondering if it still makes sense to sell your house right now? The short answer is, yes. Especially if you consider how few homes there are for sale today. You may have heard inventory is low right now, but you may not fully ...

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Why Home Prices Are Not Coming Down or Crashing

Why Aren’t Home Prices Crashing? There have been a lot of shifts in the housing market recently. Mortgage rates rose dramatically last year, impacting many people’s ability to buy a home. And after several years of rapid price appreciation, home prices finally peaked last summer. These changes led to a ...

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Interest Rates Today: Compared to Last Few Decades

Michael Mahoney RealtorMikeMahoney.com 617.615.9435 Although the mortgage rates today are certainly higher than they have been, they are still historically lower than they have been over the last few decades.   If you are a seller, I would still not worry rates impacting the pool of buyers out there. There ...

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Existing-Home Sales Continue Upward, Increasing 1.9% in November

WASHINGTON (December 22, 2021) – Existing-home sales rose in November, denoting three consecutive months of increases, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Three of the four major U.S. regions reported growth in monthly sales, while the fourth region held steady in November. From a year-over-year perspective, only one region ...

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Home sales beat estimates: no housing crash in sight

  The National Association of Realtors reported 5.99 million home sales for July, which was an excellent beat of estimates and a dagger into the hearts of the 2021 housing crash crew. Mother demographics and low mortgage rates, two things that have been transparent to human beings for a long time, are powerful economic ...

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