REAL ESTATE
GILBERT SUN NEWS AN EDITION OF THE SUNDAY EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE | AUGUST 18, 2019
Housing market continues to be on fire – for sellers GSN NEWS STAFF
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he housing market in Gilbert and almost all of the Valley has astonished and, to a degree, puzzled analysts. For now, buyers may already be frustrated in a market that is still tilting sharply in sellers’ favor. Even with a decline in the number of sales last month, prices are continuing to increase and home values are rising across the Valley — though price increases have not trended up as quickly
or as sharply as expected considering the low supply of available homes. Nevertheless, looking at Valley-wide data, the Cromford Report recently declared, “This is an astonishing situation.” “We have to go back to the bubble year of 2005 to find a higher number” of closings for one week than the 1,527 closings recorded in the first week of August, it said. Conversely, not since 2014 have there been fewer listings. The real estate market analysis site
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