Housing Market predicted to Bloom this Spring!

Joshua Brown recently reported for Fortune.com that the housing market would see a strong uptick in the coming months. Brown analyzes 10 reasons for this likely incline in housing sales.

"A few reasons:

1. Everyone sees that the zero interest rate party is coming to an end. If you’ve been waiting to borrow, it’s getting close to “now or never” time. Fear of missing out (what the kids call “FOMO”) is as powerful a motivator as anything.

2. Demand is pent-up, and pent-up things eventually get un-pent, sometimes all at once. The number of people between ages 35 and 39 is critical to household formation, and we are currently seeing an uptick in this demographic category, back to prior peaks.

3. The notion that millennials want to stay home forever is not accurate. They’re ready to bust out, and rental prices are comparably high in several key regions.

4. Employment among college-educated people (read: potential home buyers) is as tight as a drum.

5. In January, average hourly earnings jumped 0.5% for all American workers. This is just one month’s worth of data, of course, but it is significantly above trend (average hourly earnings have grown at an annual average of just 2% in the post-crisis recovery period). When people get one-time tax cuts or bonuses, they save them. When people get raises, however, they buy stuff and improve their standard of living."

Read the full article at http://fortune.com/2015/02/27/10-reasons-the-housing-market-could-go-ballistic-this-spring/

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