{"id":922,"date":"2012-12-08T13:44:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T18:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=922"},"modified":"2012-12-08T13:44:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T18:44:01","slug":"u-s-homes-sales-picking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/08\/u-s-homes-sales-picking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. HOMES SALES PICKING UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That coveted SOLD sign is going\u00a0 up on homes at a faster rate than in 2011, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR).\u00a0 The median time for a home listed on the market fell 29.6% in July over the same month last 2010, to just 69 days.\u00a0 In July 2011, homes took an average of 98 days to sell.\u00a0 About 1\/3 of\u00a0 U.S. properties sold in July remained on the market for less than a month.\u00a0 By the end of July, the number of\u00a0 FOR SALE properties represented a 6.4 month supply, down 31% from a year ago.\u00a0 NAR expects a 5% increase in existing homes prices this year, as well as another 5% bump in 2013.\u00a0 2012 has BEEN A GREAT YEAR FOR BAIN REAL ESTATE and thanks to all our buyers and sellers,\u00a0 BUT same old story SELLERS WANT TO SELL HIGH and BUYERS WANT TO BUY LOW.\u00a0 NO DIFFERENCE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That coveted SOLD sign is going\u00a0 up on homes at a faster rate than in 2011, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR).\u00a0 The median time for a home listed on the market fell 29.6% in July over the same month last 2010, to just 69 days.\u00a0 In July 2011, homes took an average [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922"}],"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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}