Archive for the ‘WI Real Estate Info & Stats’ category

January 21, 2016

Strongest Wisconsin home sales since 2005

Strongest Wisconsin home sales since 2005

What a year it was! More homes were sold in Wisconsin this past year than any year since 2005. Home sales were up 11.4% over 2014 with 76,693 properties sold. Median home prices are up 5.1% compared with last year. Median sale price for a home in Wisconsin is now $155,500. “We would have sold […]

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December 21, 2015

Strong Wisconsin housing market continues into November: on pace for best sales since 2005 by the end of the year

Strong Wisconsin housing market continues into November: on pace for best sales since 2005 by the end of the year

The Wisconsin real estate market continued its positive trend with home sales up 3.4% over last November and the median statewide price rising 3.4% to $150,000.  Information source: WRA Wisconsin on pace to exceed 75,000 home sold for the year “We expected positive growth in 2015, but this has definitley exceeded our expectations,” said K.C. […]

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December 15, 2015

Economic Outlook for 2016: Rising rates, Rising rents, Home sale growth

Economic Outlook for 2016: Rising rates, Rising rents, Home sale growth

Economists polled by CoreLogic believe that the economy will continue to grow in 2016, putting the U.S. into the eighth consecutive year of expansion with 2-3% growth, creating downward pressure on unemployment. If such conditions do come to fruition, CoreLogic predicts the following trends in next year’s housing market: 1. Interest rates will gradually move higher […]

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December 14, 2015

Metro Milwaukee real estate sales up 5% in November

Metro Milwaukee real estate sales up 5% in November

Rising Sales Metro Milwaukee area home sales in November are up 5.0% over last year at this time. This marks the tenth month of positive sales this year.  1182 homes were sold last month compared to 1126 last November. We are enjoying a busy fall, where sales typically start to slow down. Because of the limited inventory situations […]

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December 7, 2015

Big expectations for housing in 2016

Big expectations for housing in 2016

New home construction and existing home sales are projected to push the total home sales to the highest levels in years in 2016.  Most of the gains will be in a resurgence of housing starts and new home sales, an area that has suffered in recent years, with existing home sales coming in at a […]

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