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Who Will Own the Forest? 11
It was time again for the annual Who Will Own the Forest? timberland investment conference held at the World Forestry Center in Portland, OR, a couple of weeks ago. As with the past few years, Forest Economic Advisors, out of Boston, MA, also held their Forest Products Forum that week. US MacroEconomic and Real Estate…
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US House Prices
US home prices climbed 0.6 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis from June, the Federal Housing Finance Agency said in a report from Washington Tuesday. The gain was 5.8 per cent from a year earlier. The FHFA’s index is 1.1 per cent below its March 2007 peak and about the same as the November…
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US New Home Sales, Prices: August 2015
Sales of newly built homes reached the highest level since early 2008 in August, evidence that demand for housing is strengthening heading into autumn. Sales of new, single-family homes rose by 5.7 per cent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 552,000, the Commerce Department said Thursday. US New Home Sales New- home sales account…
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US Existing Home Sales, Prices: August 2015
Existing home sales tumbled 4.8 per cent in August to a 5.31 million seasonally adjusted annual rate, the National Association of Realtors said Monday, the steepest month-to-month decline since January, when they fell 4.9 per cent. Existing Home Sales, US Behind the decline in existing home sales were particularly big drops in the West and…
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US Housing Market: Latest Updates
US Housing Market Two Outs in The Bottom of The Ninth “There is a good reason people with credit scores below 620 are classified as sub-prime. Scores this low result from missing multiple payments on credit cards and loans, having multiple collection items or judgments and potentially having a very recent bankruptcy or foreclosure. They…
