National Association Of Realtors
I LOVE this column from HousingWire. As I said earlier, I think “maybe bad boy” Herman Cain is the only Repub candidate who has said anything remotely intelligent about solving the nation’s housing crisis, which is a major constipator of our economy: housing is 5 or 6% of the GDP. Nationally foreclosures are on their way up,…
Good news from the National Association of Realtors — home sales across the country spiked up in August. Of course, they should: August is always the busiest real estate month of the year, when families want to buy homes and get settled before the school year. Dallas residential sales were up by a whopping 29.1%,…
Update: At that Vail meeting with Kelcy warren et al, The Daily Beast is now reporting that the Koch brothers compared President Obama to Sadaam Hussein. He is picking up money like crazy. On the Perry bandwagon now apparently is energy billionaire Kelcy Warren, he of pipeline magnate Energy Transfer Partners, and owner of one of…
If you want to look at a market that makes residential real estate even in say, Detroit look good, look at second homes. Last year, the median price of a vacation home in the U.S. fell 11%. Compare that to what the National Association of Realtors tells us the ordinary primary residence did — fell 5 percent …
I know Case Shiller is spreading real estate doom and gloom across the state lines, but it’s summer and most of us have vacation on the mind. Here in Dallas, it is about 110 degrees in the shade, and anyone who doesn’t understand why I started a second home blog IN THIS CITY is suffering from heat stroke.…
