The Real Estate industry for 2012 has been immensely successful
thus far and the numbers will be very uplifting once the final
numbers have come to fruition as the year comes to a close. It has
often been reported about just how strong the climb have been
across the Nation with Boston in particular arguably leading the
way as the city that has improved to the highest degree. This great
notoriety has been derived when we are looking at year-over-year
statistics and the overall recovery in the industry since the
economic recession and housing crash only mere years ago.
Lender Processing Service recently came out with what they
believe are the Top 5 biggest contributors for such a turnaround in
the Real Estate industry leading to this general rising in prices.
Please have a look below to these factors and feel free to click
the link at the base of this blog post for a more detailed
description on why these issues have been so influential of
late.
- Housing affordability is attractive based on traditional
metrics such as price-to-rent and price-to-income measures, largely
because prices have fallen so far - Household formation is revving up
- Rents are rising
- The share of distressed sales, such as foreclosures, are
down - Inventories of homes for sale have plunged
More Information: Wall Street
Journal