Alaska Housing Market

“The 8.8 million homebuyers are the highest tallied by any AHS since the Great Recession. There were 11.6 million identified in the 2005 AHS, but the number

“Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, says in light of the various hurdles for 2018, the close of the fourth quarter was promising. “Home prices continued

“If you’re looking for good news in the housing market, there’s this: Prices aren’t likely to crash the way they did in the historic bust of 2006-09.

“Millennials often, and unfairly, get a bad rap for how they deal with money. In one of the many ways they’re actually doing quite well, they’re impressively

“Millions of senior citizens are staying in their homes longer than their predecessors in earlier generations, keeping homes off the market and making it more

“CoreLogic is a partner in the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index and the December HPI report compares Case-Shiller and its own index and their forecasts from

“Those who sold their residences in 2018 made an average profit of $61,000—and West Coasters reaped even higher returns, according to a recent report from real estate

“Buyers have a lot more choices as the number of homes for sale is finally rising, increasing 6% in January from a year earlier, according

“Even though December pending sales were down for the nation as a whole, both the Northeast and the West managed increases.  However, all four regions