U.S. Real Estate Markets

U. S. REAL ESTATE MARKET

This site is dedicated to facilitating access to individual Real Estate Markets across the United States.  Real Estate Markets are driven by a host of individuals and professionals including investors,  lenders, real estate agents, title officers, and those involved in building, repairing and maintaining real estate assets. The most important player is the end user, individual homeowners and renters. Real estate serves the function of housing individuals and businesses.  Our goal is to provide information and resources so that all players in the housing industry are able to research their local markets to have the facts necessary to make all important real estate decisions effecting their businesses and families. This information is available by clicking on the links above which will take you to individual states and cities websites for more local information.  We are quite aware that the Housing Industry has been in a deep recession and we are keeping tabs on the markets so we are ahead of the curve when the markets rebound.  Meanwhile, families need a place to live and businesses need buildings to operate.  We will keep you abreast of all the major developments on this site as well as in the individual cities and states linked above. In addition, there are some resources listed below to give you more information on the current condition of the real estate markets in the United States:

U. S. REAL ESTATE MARKET

Here we will explore a number of local housing markets with updated information from published sources relating to localities.  The general focus of real estate is the local markets and their effect on local residents. Because of the local nature of markets, it is common in the industry that one local market can be "hot" while its competing geographic regions and other local markets could simultaneously be slumping.  In our continued national real estate recession, there are some bright spots highlighted below.

THE BEST REAL ESTATE MARKETS FOR 2012

Inman News - http://www.inman.com/news/2011/08/23/11-fastest-moving-real-estate-markets-in-july

Inman news reports the top 11 markets as of July 2011 with expectations of increasing values as we enter into 2012.  Their methodology includes a rank based upon the lowest median age of inventory in each given market.  Inman points to Denver Colorado as the leading market based upon this singular criteria.  Many of the top 11 are in northern California.  Inman also points out that Florida is lagging the country based upon this same criteria.

REUTERS http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/03/us-usa-realestate-pros-idUSTRE8021IK20120103

Reuters singles out data from Trulia.com forcasting relative strength of real estate markets based upon the strength of technology as a driving force of employment and thus housing.  "Smart" cities will continue to flourish as long as their technology driven job base allows employees of tech-driven companies to purchase needed housing as their business increases and expands. While anecdotal in nature, this evidence serves as an additional gauge of where housing strength will emerge as we pull out of the current recession.

"This new year might be the one in which the housing market starts to strengthen, according to the 2012 predictions of several housing industry observers and experts.  Jed Kolko, chief economist at Trulia.com, a real estate search and research website, says he sees rising rents, a humble recovery in housing prices and even some unexpected 'hot' spots where he thinks price increases will exceed the average this year.  'Smart cities are hot,' he said in his annual forecast, highlighting Austin, Houston, San Jose, Boston and Rochester, New York, as cities where home prices can be expected to see modest to healthy increases."

NEW HOME SECTION http://www.newhomessection.com/blog/best-worst-real-estate-markets-in-2012/2012/01/09/

"The annual predictions for market health and hurt show that most market watchers anticipate the housing recovery to continue along its current course: slowly gaining steam nationally, but still highly-localized and dependent upon local industries and economic viability."  This popular website predicts the best and worst real estate markets for 2012 using the methodology of local business strength to drive its forecasts, naming Kansas City and Topeka, Kansas as their top picks due to the agricultural commodities produced in the local market market with such crops as corn and soy beans. 

MSN http://realestate.msn.com/january-buying-advice-best-and-worst-markets

MSN's annual predicion of real estate markets relative strength in 2012 is based upon projected population and job growth. "The outlook isn't totally bleak for this year's real-estate market. While a recovery was nowhere to be found in 2011, a handful of markets were spared the worst and are expected to rebound more quickly than others, thanks to a growing job and population base."

HOUSING PREDICTOR http://www.housingpredictor.com/2012/best-investor-markets.html

Housingpredictor.com uses a methodology based upon projected increases of investor returns in given markets ranging from Miami Florida in first place followed by the top two choices of the "NEW HOME SECTION" (above) Kansas City and Topeka, Kansas. The top ten is rounded out by El Paso Texas and Rapid City South Dakota.