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Ouch
We’ll let the first line of this bit of news speak for itself:
Prices paid for single-family homes fell 7.7 percent in the first quarter from the level of a year earlier, the steepest decline ever recorded by the National Association of Realtors, which has been tracking sales for 26 years.
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What was the source of this news snippet? I’m assuming they were referencing median sales price across the entire country?
Real estate certainly is local — we saw a 7.89% INCREASE in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.
It comes straight from the mothership — Lawrence Yun, chief economist at NAR Research.
(Whoops!) And yes, he was talking about “median value of existing U.S. single-family home sales in metropolitan areas” which “fell 7.7 percent in the first quarter from a year ago.” (Link to Reuters story.)