MSN Home sales grew in second quarter in 39 states<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nDon’t get me wrong, I’m all for a recovery.\u00a0 I would love to see a recovery.\u00a0 Did I mention that really strong sales would be great?\u00a0 The issue for me is that sales that are still 3% below a year ago doesn”t look like a recovery to me.<\/p>\n
Yes, sales are higher than the first quarter of 2009.\u00a0 However, around here, second quarter sales are always<\/em> higher than first quarter sales.\u00a0 I would wager that third quarter sales will be above second quarter sales, as always, too.\u00a0 But that doesn’t mean they will be above the third quarter of last year.<\/p>\nHelp me here, what am I missing?\u00a0 With help like this from the NAR, it’s no wonder folks don’t trust Realtors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our helpful friends at the NAR have apparently sent out press releases about the increase in home sales in the second quarter being a sign of a “recovery.” I saw this on MSN today (yes, I look at MSN): WASHINGTON – U.S. home sales grew in the second quarter in 39 states, another sign that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-dirty-laundry","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-realty-reality","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14552,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14552\/brett-arends-from-the-wall-street-journal-on-zillows-morning-gloom-report-all-this-bearish-news-makes-me-bullish\/","url_meta":{"origin":9498,"position":0},"title":"Brett Arends from the Wall Street Journal on Zillow’s morning gloom report: “All this bearish news makes me bullish.”","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 9, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Our friends at Zillow.com have figured out the secret to getting news coverage: Bad news:Home values in the United States fell faster in the first quarter of 2011 than they have in any quarter since 2008, when the housing market experienced its worst performance, according to Zillow's first quarter Real\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Group Therapy"","block_context":{"text":"Group Therapy","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/group-therapy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5944,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5944\/latest-findings-from-the-buyer-seller-profile\/","url_meta":{"origin":9498,"position":1},"title":"Latest\u00a0Findings From the Buyer, Seller Profile","author":"Dave Phillips","date":"December 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Good stuff from Greg's Rotary Club... 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