The Altos Research January 2010 Real-Time National Housing Report is now available for download. Some highlights from this month’s report:
The Altos Research 10-City Composite Price was down by 1.0% in December and 1.4% during the fourth quarter of 2009. For the full year 2009, the Composite Price Index showed an increase of 5.2%.
The Composite [...]
We’re heading to NYC this week for the Inman Real Estate Connect New York City 2010. This is one of our favorite events of the year because of the mix of brokers, agents, and Wall Streeters that attend to find out the latest and greatest in real estate technology (ahem, which includes Altos Research of [...]
Moving on from the Midwest on our 2009 year-end look at the US Housing Market by region, here are a few key metros in the Southeast – Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh with some brief analysis for each city.
We’ll be releasing the January 2010 Real-Time Real Estate Report in a few days. Register now to [...]
Marching along on our look at the US Housing Market by region, here’s the 2009 year-end Median Ask Price and Active Inventory trends for the major Texas markets – Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio, with some quick analysis based of what we’re seeing in each city -
All four markets are showing relative health compared [...]
Continuing our week-long look at the US Housing Market by region, here’s look at the 2009 year-end Median Ask Price and Active Inventory trends for the largest Pacific Northwest markets.
Median ask prices are declining steadily in each of the four markets highlighted in the Pacific Northwest.
Seattle held up pretty well through 2008, by hit a [...]
Throughout the next week or two, I’ll be posting 2009 year-end housing market trend analysis for several regions across the US, starting with a national look with our Altos 25-City Composite. While we monitor over 125 metro areas and 15,000 zip codes, choosing a few key markets in each region offers some decent perspective on [...]
Came across today’s article in DSNews – “Fewer Home Sellers are Cutting Prices: ZipRealty” – referring to Zip Realty’s press release yesterday. And well, being data geeks, the old “trust but verify” instinct kicked. From the article:
In November, fewer sellers in 27 major markets across the nation reduced home prices, and those who did, reduced [...]
Ah the glorious Home Buyer Tax Credit. Consumers lust for it, and NAR spent a fortune getting it extended. Realtors are indeed finding it a valuable incentive for business this year.
And housing stimulus goes beyond the tax credit too, the feds are pumping money into mortgages, keeping rates on conforming loans ridiculously low.
But Uncle Sam [...]