Home Sales

Builders Can't Keep Up with Demand for Homes

The rapid recovery of the housing market has caught America's home builders off guard with record low levels of inventory. The return of "bubblelike price jumps" and bidding wars are causing problems for buyers and sellers alike.

March 22, 2013 - The New York Times

In Two Housing Markets, Recession is Either Memory or Reality

There are two housing markets, "one for the rich and one for everyone else," writes Michelle Conlin. Sales and subsequent bidding wars are back in richer neighborhoods, while approximately 98.5% of the population see no end to the recession just yet.

September 22, 2011 - Boston Globe

Home Building and Sales Down

New figures from the National Association of Realtors show that the number of new homes being built and the number of homes being sold were both down during May.

July 3, 2010 - The New York Times

Homes Shrink As Lower-Priced Homes Sales Surge

More first-time, energy-conscious, urban home buyers with smaller households have contributed to a noticeable reduction in home size as shown in 2008-2009 housing Census data. Concurrently, lower-priced home sales outpaced more expensive homes.

June 28, 2010 - The Philadelphia Inquirer Via Austin American Statesman

Housing Crash Forgot Dallas

In this segment from NPR, a Dallas residential realtor talks about how his city -- where the average price has actually gone up about 2% over the last year -- has bucked the national downward housing trend.

August 17, 2008 - NPR

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