Real Estate Reporting

I feel bad for journalists who write about real estate. It must be so boring. Prices are going up. Prices are going down. Prices are going up a lot. Prices are going down a lot. In an effort to help invigorate their job, here are a few other aspects to real estate they could look into.

1. The number of prospect buyers bidding on a property.
2. The number of homes buyers consider beofre making a purchase.
3. The amount of financing concessions being provided by sellers.
4. Which party is getting priority pic on closing date.
5. Is an inspection being performed.
6. Amount, if any, of concessions following inspection.
7. Which area in the local markets is performing the best.
8. Is there a drop in activity as a certain ring suburbs- say the third tier subrubs.
9. What type of activity versus inventory are second homes commanding.
10. Cash versus financed buyers.
11. Generational differences between structure preferences.
12. Demand for townhomes versus single family versus townhome.
13. The price spread between new construction and existing.

I could go on but I think you get the picture. There’s so much more interesting data to consider in real estate than aggregate prices across a country of 313mil people.