The gulf between contract prices and appraised values highlights the risks to buyers in the current market, especially those stretching their budgets to win a bidding war.
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Author: Nicole Friedman
Home Prices Jumped Across the U.S. in Second Quarter
Home prices surged in almost every corner of the U.S. in the second quarter as robust demand continued to overwhelm the supply of homes for sale.
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Home Builders Are Restricting Sales, Pushing Up New Home Prices
Home builders have sold more homes than they can build. Now they are limiting their sales in an effort to catch up, helping push home prices even higher.
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Phoenix Homes on Track to Break Record This Week as Housing Market Booms
Once a poster child for the foreclosure crisis, Phoenix’s housing market is booming again, boosted by robust population growth and relative affordability.
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U.S. Home-Price Growth Rose to Record in May
Home-price growth climbed to a new record in May, as low mortgage interest rates continued to drive robust homebuying demand.
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Hot Housing Market Leaves People Afraid to Trade Up
Many families that have outgrown starter houses aren’t selling, contributing to shortage of homes for sale.
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U.S. Home Prices Surge, Scaring Off Some Potential Buyers
U.S. home prices rose nearly everywhere in the first quarter, a rapid price appreciation that shows little sign of fading soon with limited housing inventory and robust demand.
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Amazon Pledging More Than $2 Billion for Affordable Housing in Three Hub Cities
Amazon said it intends to invest in affordable housing over the next five years in three regions where it is a major employer: Seattle, Arlington, Va., and Nashville, Tenn.
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Demand for Houses Boosts Home Construction
Home builders attribute their robust sales to low interest rates, a shortage of existing homes for sale and consumer willingness to move farther from city centers in exchange for more space.
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Millennials Help Power This Year’s Housing-Market Rebound
Millennials, long viewed as perennial home renters who were reluctant or unable to buy, are now emerging as a driving force in the U.S. housing market’s recent recovery.
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