Real Estate News from Kristi Weinstock
August  2014
 

 

 

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Foreclosure Inventory Down 37% over Last Year!
10 best cities for millennials to buy a home

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It's hard to believe it is August already and summer is in full swing!

In between your summer vacations and a trip to the state fair, take some time to celebrate a few August holidays that you may NOT know about including:  National S'mores Day, National Watermelon Day, National Relaxation day AND National Night out!

 

Why not celebrate these summertime holidays in the home of your dreams?   

 

According to ABC news, home prices have risen steadily since housing began to recover in 2012.  REALTORS® generally expect home prices to increase in all states and the District of Columbia over the next 12 months, according to the June 2014 REALTORS® Confidence Index. The median expected price increase is 3.6 percent. In other words, it's a good time to be confident in the real estate market.   

 

You can ALSO have confidence in my real estate expertise and trusted guidance. Give me a call after you get back from your "summer vacation" or when you have time in between festivities, and we can discuss how to accomplish YOUR real estate goals together!  

 

P.S. Want to learn more about those August holidays?  Click here to find out:  http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/august.htm 

 

 

Kristi Weinstock                              

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According to the latest CoreLogic National Foreclosure Report, "approximately 660,000 homes in the US were in some state of foreclosure as of May 2014". This figure is down 37% from the 1 million homes in May of 2013. May marked the 31st consecutive month in which there were year-over-year declines.

Mark Fleming chief economist for CoreLogic revealed:

"Significant gains have been made in the last year to reduce the foreclosure stock. Yet, these improvements are occurring disproportionately in non-judicial states. The foreclosure inventory in judicial states is averaging 2.1% which is more than twice the 0.9% average that is occurring in non-judicial states."

The foreclosure process in the twenty-two judicial states can take, on average, anywhere from 180-400 days according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. The lack of initial court intervention in non-judicial states, often means that the process of foreclosure takes significantly less time.Therefore, judicial states as a whole, have taken longer to catch up to the rest of the country in liquidating foreclosure inventory. All five states with the highest foreclosure inventory as a percentage of mortgaged homes are judicial states.

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Slow job growth and student debt have made it harder for first-time home buyers

Typically, first-time buyers account for roughly 40% of all home sales; today they account for 28%, according to Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors. The reason: Slow job growth is making it harder for young would-be buyers to find good paying jobs, student debt load can be stifling and it's harder for young buyers to meet today's underwriting standards required to get a mortgage, he said.

Yun thinks it will be about three years before the share of first-time buyers returns to normal. But in some markets over others, the oldest millennials (those between the ages of 25 and 34) may have a better chance of becoming homeowners in the near future. Using data including the local population of people this age, job market conditions, housing affordability and inventory, NAR analyzed 100 metropolitan areas to find the best markets for those older millennials interested in becoming homeowners. -Amy Hoak.
 

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