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Austin Mortgage Market Update – For the week of December 31, 2012

Austin Mortgage Market Update - For the week of December 31, 2012 - If you need some encouragement to follow the advice of the inventor of the automobile starter motor, look to last week's November New Home Sales, UP 4.4% to a 377,000 annual rate, and now UP 15.3% versus a year ago. The new home median price of $246,000 is UP 14.9% over a year ago. And the months' supply of new homes is now down to 4.7, equal to the lowest level since 2005. Economists say new home sales are usually the last part of the housing market to recover, so this is truly encouraging news.

TEXAS MORTGAGE MARKET UPDATE – For the week of December 17, 2012

TEXAS MORTGAGE MARKET UPDATE - For the week of December 17, 2012 - There are just two weeks to go for politicians to broker a deal to stop the country from going over a fiscal cliff of draconian tax hikes and spending cuts. Unfortunately, Washington isn't proceeding with much urgency. Investors reacted poorly to the uncertainty as all three major stock indexes slipped for the week. Not helping things, the economic data was mixed, as inflation cooled and Industrial Production beat expectations, but Retail Sales missed consensus targets.

Texas Mortgage Market Update – For the week of December 10, 2012

Texas Mortgage Market Update - For the week of December 10, 2012 - What are rising now are asking prices for homes. A major Web real estate portal reports prices for homes listed there were up 3.8% in November versus a year ago. This is the largest year-over-year gain since the housing downturn began. In addition, the listing prices for the three months ending in November were up 0.8% from the prior three months. And the good news was widespread: annual gains were reported in 76 of the 100 largest metros. Finally, asking price gains are now beating rent price gains in the 25 largest rental markets.

Texas Mortgage Market Update – For the week of December 3, 2012

Texas Mortgage Market Update - For the week of December 3, 2012 - We who toil in the housing market must surely be very strong by now, having overcome some powerful forces, not the least of which has been the downward pressure on home prices. The latest evidence that pressure is letting up came with the Case-Shiller home price index, UP 0.4% for September and UP 3% versus a year ago. Nineteen of 20 metros reported higher prices not just for the month, but for the past three months! The FHFA index of prices for homes financed by conforming mortgages was UP 0.2% for September and UP 4.4% over a year ago.

Texas Mortgage Market Update – For the week of November 26, 2012

Texas Mortgage Market Update - For the week of November 26, 2012 - We may not be standing in the middle of a fully recovered housing market, but we're clearly moving in that direction. Existing Home Sales were UP 2.1% in October, staying right near their highest level in over two years. Sales are up 10.9% from a year ago. The median price is now $178,600, up 11.1% over a year ago. And the supply of existing homes dropped from 5.6 to 5.4 months. The inventory of existing homes is down to 2.14 million, the lowest level since December 2002.

Texas Mortgage Market Update – For the week of November 5, 2012

Texas Mortgage Market Update - For the week of November 5, 2012 - We hope that in the face of the tragedy of superstorm Sandy, those affected will find joy: in neighbors coming together showing strength in community; in the armies of emergency workers, both professionals and volunteers, toiling around the clock; in the heartfelt support of people across the country, expressed on social networks, via emails, on radio and TV. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those now struggling to recover. If you'd like to contribute to the relief effort, a good place to start is the American Red Cross at http://www.redcross.org/charitable-donations.

Texas Mortgage Market Update – For the week of October 29, 2012

Texas Mortgage Market Update - For the week of October 29, 2012 - The rest of the economy may be barely moving forward, but there's clearly some action in the housing market. New single-family home sales were up 5.7% for September and up 27.1% over a year ago. The seasonally adjusted annual rate of 389,000 units is the strongest sales pace since April 2010. The median sales price was $242,400, up almost 12% versus a year ago. 145,000 new homes were on the market, a 4.5 months' supply at the current sales rate, down from a record 12.1 months in January 2009.

Texas Mortgage Market Update – For the week of October 22, 2012

Texas Mortgage Market Update - For the week of October 22, 2012 - If Apollinaire were alive today (he died in 1918), he might suggest we pause now and be happy, given that September Housing Starts were up 15% (11% for single-family starts) to an 872,000 annual rate. From a year ago, starts are up 34.8%, as builders are starting homes at the fastest pace since July 2008. Building permits for future construction were up 11.6% in September to an 894,000 annual rate. The total number of homes under construction is up 21% over a year ago, gaining 13 months in a row, which hasn't happened since the building boom of 2003–2004.

Texas Mortgage Market Update – For the week of October 15, 2012

Texas Mortgage Market Update - For the week of October 15, 2012 - Opportunity is finally popping up all over the U.S. housing market. Confirmation of that fact came last week in the Federal Reserve's Beige Book, which contains anecdotal findings on the state of the economy in the Fed's 12 districts across the country. The Beige Book noted that even though economic activity has only modestly improved in recent months, the housing market has shown "widespread improvement."

Texas Mortgage Market Update – For the week of October 8, 2012

Texas Mortgage Market Update - For the week of October 8, 2012 - Many observers feel we should be totally prepared for the housing recovery to continue. A major real estate portal reports list prices UP 2.5% in September versus a year ago, the biggest year-over-year boost since the housing recession started. Excluding foreclosures, list prices were UP 3.5% from a year ago. From July to August, those prices were UP 0.5%, their eighth straight month of gains. These numbers are causing experts to predict that 2012 will likely record the first calendar year list price increase since 2006, as gains were seen in 74 of the top 100 U.S. metros.