Jeff Lybrand, 703-691-3260, Fax 877-504-2009, email

Real Estate Statistics

Remember - Real Estate is local which means try to focus on the real estate statistics in your local area.

For Northern Virginia - http://www.nvar.com/MarketStatistics/tabid/224/Default.aspx

Loudoun County - http://www.dullesarea.net/marketstatistics/

For Maryland and Washington DC - http://gcaarrocks.com/toolkit_ektid868.aspx

For Washington DC Metro area - http://www.cra-gmu.org/index.htm
The Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University, includes economic statistics. Just look at a few of their most recent presentations.

There are there major National Real Estate tracking sites.

NAR - National Association of Realtors. http://www.realtor.org/research

Most broad based

FHFA - Federal Housing Finance Agency http://www.fhfa.gov/ These statistics are based on the "Same house sales" which means it tracks the sales price of the same house over time. Does not take into account improvements made by an owner though. Only covers loans bought by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which are mostly Conforming loans, i.e. under $417,000 (not Jumbo loans) so does not hit upper end stats as much.

Case/Shiller - http://www.standardandpoors.com/indices/sp-case-shiller-home-price-indices/en/us/?indexId=spusa-cashpidff--p-us----

Tends toward newer homes and higher end homes, doesn't capture the whole market.
Here is a link to a graph of it over time. http://www.blytic.com/Player.aspx?key=7bf056aa379943e29ce95246220c188c

Real Estate Economy Watch - A site with articles and links to statistics including new home statistics. The founder is a former Economist with the National Association of Realtors. http://www.realestateeconomywatch.com/

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