{"id":1185,"date":"2014-02-07T21:03:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T21:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2014-02-07T21:03:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T21:03:24","slug":"realtors-economists-come-up-with-similar-prices-but-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/realtors-economists-come-up-with-similar-prices-but-go\/","title":{"rendered":"REALTORS &#038; ECONOMISTS COME UP with SIMILAR PRICES, BUT  GO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.\u00a0 Economists participating in a Wall Street Journal survey, including Lawrence Yun (Chief Economist, National Assoc. of Realtors) look at economic variables such as GDP, unemployment, inflation, housing starts, months&#8217; supply, etc.\u00a0 REALTORS, by contrast look at number of listings, buyer traffic, listing prices, etc.\u00a0 Quite surprisingly, the expectations are similar.\u00a0 Both forecasts are &#8220;conservation&#8221; with no wild swings.\u00a0 Both are projecting 4 &#8211; 5% gains, which is the most optimistic in 6 years.\u00a0 Mortgage rates must stay down, but stagnant wages are hurting some.\u00a0 14 states, including TEXAS, have made stronger price gains.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.\u00a0 Economists participating in a Wall Street Journal survey, including Lawrence Yun (Chief Economist, National Assoc. of Realtors) look at economic variables such as GDP, unemployment, inflation, housing starts, months&#8217; supply, etc.\u00a0 REALTORS, by contrast look at number of listings, buyer traffic, listing prices, etc.\u00a0 Quite surprisingly, the expectations are similar.\u00a0 Both forecasts are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}