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With more talk about housing popping up all over the place in anticipation of the spring housing market, some people will start curing that spring fever with a new home. So now is the perfect time to get your home ready to put on the market or look for that dream home.
If you or someone you know is thinking of buying or selling, give me a call. Now is a great time!
Kristi
Coldwell Banker Burnet
612-309-8332
kdweinstock@cbburnet.com
www.KristiWeinstock.com
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Home Sales Sunnier as Spring Buying Season Approaches
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The housing market is flashing signs of health ahead of the spring buying season.
Sales of previously occupied homes are at their highest level since May 2010. More first-time buyers are making purchases. And the supply of homes fell last month to its lowest point in nearly seven years, which could push home prices higher.
Sales have now risen nearly 13 percent over the past six months. While they are still well below the 6 million that economists equate with a healthy market, the gains have coincided with other changes in the market that suggest more sales are coming.
"The trend is clearly upward," said Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics.
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5 Lessons for Home Buyers Warming Market
By Brian O'Connell
NEW YORK (MainStreet) - Growing signs of improvement in the housing market could draw more buyers in the coming months, and although the rules of the game haven't changed much, the big question for anyone returning to the housing market - or getting into it for the first time - is what are the long-term lessons to be learned from the recent housing downturn?
In fact, all the key lessons are things buyers and borrowers should have known before the housing crash - the crash just underscored how important they were. Even if the market does improve this year, as many experts predict, it's not likely to strengthen fast enough to offset the damage homeowners do when they make basic mistakes.
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