Tagged with new home sales
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How Bad Could it Really Be?
I was at lunch the other day with an executive from one of Saint Louis’s largest publicly held corporations who recently relocated to Saint Louis. We were talking about the economy and how much the landscape has changed in so many different industries. I knew he was eventually going to get around to real estate because that [...]
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Trouble for the Housing Market
The treasury will be borrowing about $102 billion worth of 2 yr, 5 yr and 7 yr notes or roughly $2 billion less than it borrowed last month. July existing home sales are due out and are expected to be down roughly 13% while new homes sales are actually expected to have increased 3%. Existing [...]
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Mortgage Rates Continue to Hold As New Home Sales are on the Rise
Mortgage rates held relatively steady last week despite an increase of roughly 7 basis points on the 5 year and 10 year treasury notes. A majority of the rate market activity recently has been in treasuries with mortgage rates remaining surprisingly stable. The stock market remains confined to a wide trading range with many large [...]