Issues
Good News For The New Year – Issue 132
Americans Positive Going Into 2017!
Good News For the Fading Year – Issue 131
Measures of Economic Optimism Are Shooting Up All Over the Place After Trump’s Win
Good News For The Fading Year – Issue 130
Thanks to an abundance of Black Friday sales and two more selling days, November U.S. light-vehicle sales posted a 3.5% gain over prior year sales for the same month. Average price? $31,719.
Good News For The Fading Year – Issue 129
Retail Sales Up!
The U.S Dept. of Commerce reports that retail sales in October were up .8% and upgraded September sales to a 1% increase. Together these were the largest 2 month increase since spring, 2014!
So Are Housing Starts!
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that October starts of privately-owned housing were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,323,000, or 23% above October, 2015!
Good News For The Fading Year – Issue 127
The Register Guard reports a 10.2% year over year increase in home sales in Lane County for the month of August!
Good News For the Fading Year – Issue 126
DMV Speeds Into 21st Century!
We’re pleased to tell you that the Oregon Dept. of Motor Vehicles now accepts credit and debit cards! We’re not sure why they’re so late to the party that everyone else joined long ago, but we’re glad they did.
Good News For The Fading Year – Issue 125
Fidelity Monitor&Insight newsletter reports that home sales have reached an annualized “six million units…for four straight months – something not seen since the housing crash. Personal income rose a solid .04% in July.”
Good News For The Fading Year – Issue 124
Oregon students’ ACT scores best in recent history
Good News For Midyear! – Issue 123
Good news for Lane County home sellers – Through July the average price for a home increased 6.7% over last July.
And for Lane County home buyers – Housing inventory rose to 2.5 months in July from 1.8 months in June.
And good news for Lane County realtors – Average days on market for sold homes decreased by 24.1% from a year ago!
Good News For The Midyear! – Issue 122
The Commerce Dept. reports that U.S. new home sales rose to a seasonally adjusted 592,000 in June – the best since February, 2008!