Northeast Regional Intelligence

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way” – Babe Ruth October is here: the leaves are changing, jack-o-lanterns are carved, and builders are preparing to hit year-end sales goals. October, of course, is also home to …

Thanks to low mortgage rates, the monthly costs of homeownership in the Washington, DC MSA are among the lowest in the last three decades. If rates rise, as the bond market seems to suggest will happen, and prices and incomes …

Within an MSA, there are often submarkets where careful risk/reward analysis says you should: buy land and build more homes in one submarket sell your land holdings in another submarket, and be more aggressive with price appreciation assumptions in a …

After five years of its home value appreciation rates lagging those in the Washington MSA, Baltimore area appreciation rates are expected to nearly match Washington’s in 2014. The Burns Metric of the Month According to the Burns Home Value Index™, …

As a 19-year veteran of the Washington, DC housing market and head of a DC-based consulting practice, I have plenty of experience dealing with the federal government’s impact on the local housing market. With federal government employment and spending making …

Elected and appointed government officials have a tremendous track record of making a huge difference in housing, both positive and negative, as evidenced by the timeline below. The series of policies that started with the 1992 GSE Act and culminated …

Prices in Boston have corrected to 2002 levels, and we expect relatively flat prices this year and slowly rising prices over the next few years. Digging down deeper into the MSA, the low end of the market is stabilizing, while …

While DC’s job losses since the downturn began have paled in comparison to other markets, recent trends are not good. We report this because the industry buzz is that the Washington DC economy is on the mend, but this is …