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Groundhog Day, change comes slowly. This week, Inman spoke with agents and economists about what’s going on with prices, inventory and the future of housing. The takeaway from these conversations is that the market is probably not poised to collapse the way it did in 2008. But there are still challenges ahead. Below, Inman has gathered a collection of statistics that help shed light on what’s going on. There’s good news and bad, but let’s get the bad out of the way first: The troubling numbers Number of licensed Realtors: 1,484,549 Data from the National Association of Realtors shows ...

Inman Connect This is the second installment of Inman’s five-part Bubble Trouble series on the housing market’s unpredictable rise.  Tom Bailey became a real estate agent in 2008 — as the housing market was going from really good to really bad. It wasn’t easy. Tom Bailey “I did everything,” Bailey, a broker with Margaret Rudd & Associates in Southport, North Carolina, recently told Inman. “I was calling expired listings. Calling [for-sale-by-owner listings]. I’d get out and knock on doors.” More than a decade later, Bailey’s then-fledgling career has survived and conditio...

Bill Wilmering’s buyer has disappeared. An agent with Wood Brothers Realty in the St. Louis area, Wilmering recently told Inman that he had been working with a man who found the perfect home. Together, they put together an offer that they thought could work. And then as has happened to so many agents this spring, they lost a bidding war. Bill Wilmering “I haven’t heard from him in days, which is very unusual for him,” Wilmering said. “The last comments I had from him were that he was very discouraged.” The anecdote is just one of many that highlights the brutal market buyers face ...

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