Current Housing Trends

Welcome to my most current Housing Trends eNewsletter. This eNewsletter is specially designed for you, my dear blog readers, with national and local housing information that you may find useful whether you’re in the market for a home, thinking about selling your home, or just interested in homeowner issues in general. 

Please click on this link to view my Housing Trends January 2016 Newsletter
http://wendywonder.housingtrendsenewsletter.com 

The Housing Trends eNewsletter contains the latest information from the National Association of REALTORS®, the U.S. Census Bureau, Realtor.org reports and other sources.

Housing Trends eNewsletter is filled with local and national real estate sales and price activity provided by MLSs and the National Association of Realtors, U.S. Census Bureau key market indicators, consumer videos, blogs, real estate glossary, mortgage rates and calculators, consumer articles, and REALTOR.com local community reports. 

If you are interested in determining the value of your home, click the “Home Evaluator” link for a free evaluation report: 

http://wendywonder.housingtrendsenewsletter.com/dispContent.cfm?loadid=2&loadtype=0 

Sound decisions can only be made with accurate and reliable information, and I am happy to be a trusted resource for you. Thank you for the opportunity to provide you with this monthly eNewsletter, and I look forward to answering any questions you may have and to the opportunity to be your REALTOR® in the future. 

Sincerely yours, 

Wendy Ceccherelli
Home Land Seattle

Zillow's 2016 Housing Predictions

As we prepare for the New Year, what kinds of trends may impact our investing?

Zillow’s experts say 2016 will be all about housing affordability, with young and first-time buyers pushed out to the suburbs by the lack of affordable homes near city centers. Check out these five 2016 housing market predictions and get ready for the year ahead.

Read the entire article here.Happy New Year!

Happy Investing!

Forecasted Home Values

Is it really possible to forecast where the price of your house is likely to be a year into the future?

Allan Weiss, co-founder and CEO of the company the pioneered the Case-Shiller price index, believes that it is.

But unlike the Case-Shiller index, which tracks price trends in roughly 5000 zip codes, Weiss Residential Research tracks individual homes in most areas nationwide. Weiss claims that specific houses were predictors of important changes in previous pricing trends, that were not otherwise observable to consumers in the marketplace at that time. His houses-specific indices will not provide current property valuations, but will show price movement over a period of recent years.

For $25, consumers will be able to purchase one year forecasts and line graphs from Weiss Residential Research. Just email myhouse@weissres.com and list the property address and zip code. Please report back to this blog what you thought of this service, should you decide to look into it further.

Later this summer, Weiss will publish reports on price trends in major metropolitan housing markets at www.weissres.com. He believes that such information should allow consumers and home buyers to make smarter decisions and avoid potentially large home-buying mistakes.

If any of my blog readers have signed up for this service, please let me know what you think.

Happy Investing!