Follow Me on Twitter

Home sales jump in October to highest level in 18 months

Dennis Norman

The National Association of REALTORS Pending Home Sales Index for October shows an increase of 10.4 percent in the index from the month before (seasonally adjusted), and a 9.2 percent increase from a year ago. This is the first time in four months that the index has increased and marks the highest level the

Continue reading… Home sales jump in October to highest level in 18 months

Home sales fall in September; third consecutive month of decline

Dennis Norman

The National Association of REALTORS Pending Home Sales Index for September shows a decrease of 4.6 percent in the index from the month before (seasonally adjusted), and a 6.4 percent increase from a year ago. This is the third consecutive month the index has decreased from the month before and, and the year over

Continue reading… Home sales fall in September; third consecutive month of decline

Home sales decline in August; second consecutive month of declines

Dennis Norman

The National Association of REALTORS Pending Home Sales Index for August shows a decrease of 1.2 percent in the index from the month before (seasonally adjusted), and a 7.7 percent increase from a year ago. This is the second consecutive month the index has decreased from the month before and, while the year

Continue reading… Home sales decline in August; second consecutive month of declines

Home sales activity in July down from month before; still better than last year

Dennis Norman

The National Association of REALTORS Pending Home Sales Index for July shows, after two consecutive months of increases, a decrease of 1.3 percent in the index from the month before (seasonally adjusted), and a 14.4 percent increase from a year ago (last month’s index was up 19.8 percent from the year before).

Pending home sales increase in June; 2nd consecutive month pending home sales on the rise

Dennis Norman

The National Association of REALTORS Pending Home Sales Index for June shows an increase of 2.4 percent in the index from the month before (seasonally adjusted), and a whopping 19.8 percent increase from a year ago. This is the second month in a row that the index increased on a year-over-year basis.

Pending home sales increase in May; largest monthly gain since last year

Dennis Norman

The National Association of REALTORS Pending Home Sales Index for May shows an increase of 8.2 percent in the index from the month before (seasonally adjusted), and a 13.4 percent increase from a year ago. This is the first time since April 2010 that the index increased on a year-over-year basis, and had

Continue reading… Pending home sales increase in May; largest monthly gain since last year

Pending home sales increase in March; prediction is for an increase in existing home sales this year

Dennis Norman

The National Association of REALTORS Pending Home Sales Index for March shows an increase of 5.1 percent in the index from the month before (seasonally adjusted), and a 11.4 percent decrease from a year ago.   This is the third-consecutive month over month increase for the pending home sales index.

U.S. Pending Home Sales increase slightly in February; mixed results regionally

Dennis Norman

The National Association of REALTORS Pending Home Sales Index for February shows an increase of 2.1 percent in the index from the month before (seasonally adjusted), and a 8.2 percent decrease from a year ago.   There were some wide swings regionally in this months statistics as the Northeast region had a 10.9 percent

Continue reading… U.S. Pending Home Sales increase slightly in February; mixed results regionally

Home sales cool off in January; down almost 3 percent from December

Dennis Norman

The National Association of REALTORS Pending Home Sales Index for January shows a decrease of 2.8 percent in the index from the month before (seasonally adjusted), and a 1.5 percent decrease from a year ago.

Home sales activity increasing modestly

Dennis Norman

The National Association of REALTORS Pending Home Sales Index for December shows an increase of 2.0 percent in the index from the month before (seasonally adjusted), and a 4.2 percent decrease from a year ago.

Pending home sales rise in November

Dennis Norman

The National Association of REALTORS Pending Home Sales Index for November shows an increase of 3.5 percent in the index from the month before (seasonally adjusted), and a 5.0 percent decrease from a year ago.

Pending home sales drop slightly in September

Dennis Norman

The National Association of REALTORS Pending Home Sales Index for September shows a decrease of 1.8 percent in the index from the month before (seasonally adjusted), and a 24.9 percent decrease from a year ago.

Pending Home Sales Increase in August; Still down 20 percent from year ago

Dennis Norman

Pending home sales rise for 2nd consecutive month in August -

The National Association of REALTORS Pending Home Sales Index for August shows an increase of 4.3 percent in the index from the month before (seasonally adjusted), which is 20.1 percent below a year ago.

Home Sales Jump In February

Dennis Norman

 Today the National Association of REALTORS released it’s February Pending Home Sales Index showing a increase of 8.2 percent (seasonally adjusted) in the index from January and a 17.3 percent increase from last year.

Here are highlights from the report:

January”s pending home sales index (seasonally adjusted) was 97.6 (the index is based upon 100.0 being equal to

Continue reading… Home Sales Jump In February

Pending Home Sales Drop In January; Weather Named as Cause

Dennis Norman

 Today the National Association of REALTORS released it’s January Pending Home Sales Index showing a decrease of 7.6 percent in the index from December, 2009 to January 2010 (seasonally adjusted) and a 12.3 percent increase from last year.

Here are highlights from the report:

January”s pending home sales index (seasonally adjusted) was 90.4 (the index is based

Continue reading… Pending Home Sales Drop In January; Weather Named as Cause

Home sales increase in July; sixth consecutive monthly increase in pending home sales

Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist, NAR

By: Dennis Norman

Today the National Association of REALTORS(R) issued their Pending Home Sales Index Report for July showing pending sales in the U.S. were up for the sixth consecutive month, the best streak since NAR began the pending home sale index in 2001.

Pending home sales in the U.S. for July

Continue reading… Home sales increase in July; sixth consecutive monthly increase in pending home sales

Pending home sales increase for 5th month in a row in June
First time in 6 years for such a streak

Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist, NAR

By: Dennis Norman

Today the National Association of REALTORS(R) issued their Pending Home Sales Index Report for June showing pending sales were up for the fifth consecutive month, the first time in six-years for such a streak.  This along, with other recent good reports on housing, indicate the strong possibility that

Continue reading… Pending home sales increase for 5th month in a row in June
First time in 6 years for such a streak

Pending home sales increase again in May – Fourth month in a row

By: Dennis Norman

Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist, NAR

The National Association of REALTORS(R) issued their Pending Home Sales Index Report for May which showed a very modest increase of 0.1% on the index, over April, however May marks the fourth month in a row the index has increased.  It was almost five years ago (October, 2004) the last

Continue reading… Pending home sales increase again in May – Fourth month in a row