While the real estate market typically softens as the holiday season nears, this November saw an unexpectedly sharp drop in sales. In November, home sales fell below 2012 levels for the first time this year, dropping 10.9 percent year over year and 16.8 percent from October.
It’s a little early for annual look-backs, but 2013 will probably be recognized as the year of the buying frenzy… until it wasn’t. Nearly every month, headlines reported home prices hitting or surpassing five-year highs, and fierce bidding wars made some sellers question whether they should have listed their home for an even higher price. […]
On average, for every $1 billion increase in stock value of companies in a given area, the median sale price of nearby homes increases by $4,400. That doesn’t sound like much, until you consider an area like Silicon Valley, home to 45 publicly traded companies in this study, and about $1.1 trillion in valuation. When […]