Consumer Confidence in Housing is Building

By Pulsenomics | March 17, 2015
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As reported last week, The Zillow® U.S. Composite Housing Confidence Indexâ„¢ (ZHCI) rose to 67.4 in January, an increase of 3.2 points from its level six months earlier and up 3.6 points year-over-year, indicating continued growth in positive housing sentiment within local real estate markets across the country. Analysis of the indicator indices underlying the…

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Open House Mayhem: Will it Last?

By Pulsenomics | March 13, 2015
A man with chains around his neck and holding onto an orange object.

Perhaps there are glimmers of hope for anxious would-be home buyers frustrated by the dearth of existing inventory in many real estate markets (consider this CNBC report today). The January 2015 U.S. Housing Confidence Survey (HCS)–the same survey cited in the CNBC report, and from which The Zillow Housing Confidence Index is derived–reveals that, in…

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