From Realtor Magazine Online, Daily Real Estate News July 27, 2009
If you were drawing a real estate market trend line, you’d start in the west and go east, according to real estate commentator Marc Roth of Business Week.
Roth says the decline in the real estate market began in the West in 2007 with a 20 percent drop in transactions. The South, Midwest, and Northeast had milder declines of 13 percent, 11 percent, and 7 percent respectively that year.
In 2008, the South, Midwest, and Northeast were dropping 15 percent to 16 percent, with the West down only 1 percent, he pointed out.
Today, in mid-2009, the number of properties sold in the West is up 7 percent, while declines in the other regions have shrunk to between 3.5 percent and 7 percent.
Roth argues that since industry trends have historically moved from the west to the northeast, these numbers are evidence that the housing decline is about to be history in nearly every part of the country.
Roth, who is president of Home Warranty of America, says, “I am putting my money where my opinions rest. … I believe these trends send a strong enough signal that I am adding staff to both my sales force and call center.”
Source: Business Week, Marc Roth (07/24/2009)
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