Housing Market Reaches a Milestone
Posted July 13th, 2012 | by The Update
Things have been going exceptionally well here in DFW and in the luxury market, but recently The Wall Street Journal reported that for the nation as a whole, “The housing market has turned— at last.”
Nearly 10% more existing homes were sold in May than in the same month a year earlier, many purchased by investors who plan to rent them for now and sell them later, an important sign of an inflection point. In something of a surprise, the inventory of existing homes for sale has fallen close to the normal level of six months’ worth... The reduced inventory of unsold homes is key, says Mark Fleming, chief economist at CoreLogic, a housing data-analysis firm.
“Even with the overall economy slowing,” Wells Fargo Securities economists said, cautiously, in a note to clients, “the budding recovery in the housing market appears to be gradually gaining momentum.”
From here on, housing [will] reflect the strength or weakness of the overall economy: The more jobs, the more confident Americans are about keeping their jobs, the more they are willing to buy houses.
Click here to read the full article on the Wall Street Journal.
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