Tag: us housing

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • US Housing Starts: August 2015

    Home-building in the US slipped in August, with declines in both single-family and apartment-building construction. US housing starts fell 3 per cent from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.126 million last month, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Moreover, new applications for building permits rose 3.5 per cent to 1.17 million,…