David Lereah
David Lereah
David Lereah is the President of Reecon Advisors, Inc., a real estate advisory and information company located in the Washington, DC area. Lereah was previously an Executive Vice President at Move, Inc. and before that, Chief Economist for the National Association of Realtors. Lereah served as the NAR's spokesman on economic forecasts, interest rates, home sales, mortgage rates, as well as other policy issues and trends affecting the United States real estate industry. Lereah was also the Chief Economist for...
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The nearby regions picked up a great deal of activity very quickly.
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The current pace of home sales activity remains historically strong only eight months have had a higher sales pace.
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The current pace of home sales activity remains historically strong - only eight months have had a higher sales pace. A modest downtrend, to a sales volume that is expected to be the second-best year ever in 2006, will be good for the long-term health of the housing sector.
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Real estate is still a great investment opportunity for households. Price appreciation will continue. It may not be at 20%. It may ... even go down to 5%.
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...housing activity will remain healthy for some time to come.
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The continuing shortages of housing inventory are driving the price gains. There is no evidence of bubbles popping.
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We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping.
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The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the housing sector.
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The steady improvement in [home] sales will support price appreciation...[despite] all the wild projections by academics, Wall Street analysts, and others in the media.
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If you paid your mortgage off, it means you probably did not manage your funds efficiently over the years,
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With sales stabilizing, we should go back to positive price growth early next year.
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I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the ‘golden age’ of real estate.
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Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that is higher than previous peaks in the housing cycle.
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Modeling a relationship between economic and commercial market indicators, as well as market trends and sentiment, will provide us with a new tool in assessing market behavior in the major commercial real estate sectors. It is being designed as an index to provide early signals of turning points between expansions and slowdowns in commercial real estate activity.