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There are still buyers who want to wait to buy when the next recession hits: they may be disappointed. How did the country’s housing market fare historically during recessionary periods? Based on what’s happened in past recessions, a report by First American ...
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The jobs market added 291,000 in private payrolls in January for the best monthly gain since May 2015, according to a report Wednesday from ADP and Moody’s Analytics. Leisure and hospitality led with 96,000 new jobs, but education and ...
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At the beginning of this year I said the single most important driver of the economy in 2019 will be the US-CHINA trade war....now it appears a deal is about to be struck to cancel the tariffs in stages.....stay tuned ...
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David Blumenthal, president of the Commonwealth Fund, cited a report that found average U.S. life expectancy has slipped to 78.6 years old. Access to health care, good educational opportunities, and healthy habits play a part in increasing longevity. All can increase property ...
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Last month, the median home price inside the Austin city limits leaped 11.9% to $406,000, an all-time high for any September. The number of single-family home sales inside the city limits increased by almost 15% to 798 sales. (Austin Board of Realtors)
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The once-popular Home equity line of credit loan Americans use to finance home renovations and college tuition is slowly dying, slashing a lucrative source of revenue for the nation’s largest banks. Rapidly climbing property prices between 2003-6 led homeowners to use their homes ...
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Existing-home sales fell 2.2% in September from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.38 million. Compared with 2018, sales in September rose 3.9%. The number of homes for sale at the end of September ...
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