Quick Takes
+ Tight supply and affordability issues will ease.
+ Housing starts will increase by 5.3% in 2017 to 1.22 million.
+ To catch up to demand, 1.5 million new homes are needed.
+ Projections of new single-family home sales to total 570,000 for 2016.
+ Projections of new single-family home sales to total 620,000 in 2017.
+ Millennials will begin to affect buying demand.
+ NAR surveys evidence that there’s a strong desire for Millennials to own a home.
+ NAR forecasts that for 2017 that existing-home sales will to grow by 2% to 5.46 million.
+ The NAR forecasts for 2018 are for 4% in 2018 or 5.68 million sales.
+ The national median existing-home price is expected to rise to 4% for 2016.
+ The national median existing-home price is expected to rise to 4% for 2017.
+ NAR expects existing-home sales to finish at 5.36 million, which is the best year since 2006 (6.47 million).
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