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    LOCAL ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT | RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE

    D-FW housingmarket starts slow recovery

    By STEVE BROWNReal Estate Editor

    [email protected]

    KYLE ALCOTTStaff Artist

    [email protected]

    After more than four years of declines, the Dallas-Fort Worth housingmarket is bumping along the bottom. Prices have started to stabilize inmany neighborhoods, and the number of pre-owned home sales has beenrising in recent months. But economists and market analysts agree thecomeback wont be quick.

    Dallas vs. U.S. home prices

    Homebuyer affordability is

    absolutely sky high.

    Mortgage rates are

    dirt cheap. Thats

    going to help

    stimulate home

    sales in the coming

    year.

    I am expecting 2012 to be the

    first full year of

    recovery, with sales

    increasing year-

    over-year. The

    recovery began

    back in July of

    2011.

    In 2011 more than half of the

    Dallas-area residential

    districts saw

    higher sales. And

    prices appear

    to have

    stabilized in

    many areas.

    The bottom line

    Frank Nothaft, chief economist,

    Freddie Mac

    David Brown, Metrostudy Inc. Steve Brown, real estate editor,

    The Dallas Morning News

    Dallas-area home prices have fallen about 10 percent from the peak, while the nation, on average, is down by about a third.

    NOTE: Comparison of Dallas-area home prices and composite of 20 major U.S. cities over time; does not include new houses but

    values of actual properties over time.

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    D-FW new home constructionNumber of new homes started each year:

    North Texas new home inventoryThe supply of new homes in the D-FW area is down

    by almost three fourths since 2006. Number of vacant

    new homes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area at the end

    of each year:

    North Texas pre-owned home sales

    Pre-owned home sales have fallen by more than a third

    since 2006. Number of single-family homes sold by real

    estate agents for each year:

    North Texas home listings

    Homes listed for sale in North Texas are down about 35

    percent since the record high in 2007. Number of single-

    family homes listed for sale in real estate agents multiple

    listing service at the end of each year:

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    United States

    Dec.: 136.71

    Dallas

    Dec.: 113.22

    Dallas United States

    13,927

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    42,290

    27,058

    SOURCES: The Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University; North Texas Real Estate Information Systems