All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Residential Market Trends

This report for the 2nd Quarter of 2007 is part of a regular series produced by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development Research. While the first quarter of 2007 had shown some improvement in housing affordability, the second quarter showed an increase...

With traditional sales slowing and sellers desperate to unload properties due to financial burdens, marital discourse, death, job relocation or other pressures, sellers are turning to an old stand-by method of selling via an auction.  According to research from the National Auctioneers Association,...

Several rounds of tightening regulations around foreign property investment in China. Despite this investment has increased as have property prices across the country due to high returns and currency appreciation.

A reduction in the total number of real estate agents in this country is not necessarily bad news for the industry - certainly not bad news for the remaining agents. But is spells trouble for the real estate brokerage businesses, particularly the large, corporate operationsand those affiliated with...

NAR is correct to classify the decline in Realtors as victims of the current housing down turn. What the article does not tell us - the decline will be beneficial for both the consumer and the remaining real estate agents.

The urban housing system reform started in late 1980s, especially the introduction of real estate market has resulted in general improvement in accommodation for most urban population in China. The Country managed to provide in less than 20 years new and reasonable quality owner-occupied housing for...

Prices hold steady while time on market goes up. Inventory increases but sellers try hold to old prices from when they were higher. 

The Inman News feature article was correct on the continued rise in lender and builder inventories due to spiked foreclosure numbers, purchase cancellations and borrower credit qualifiers. However,the small blip upward in median home prices for California to $594,260 (June 2007) from $592,780 (June...

Tightening lending requirements of remaining players and higher home loan rates will push the housing demand lower, adding further downward pressure to home prices and increasing the likelihood of Fed intervention.

When one hears today of significant short term capital gains being made through trading at the top end of the residential market, one might be forgiven for thinking that not much has changed since the heady days immediately prior to the handover in 1997. In practice, however, the situation is very different...