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Journal-World Median home prices rose 5.5 percent over the past 12 months to $208,300 , according to the October sales report.
The time on the market is also steadily increasin g. It took 63 days on average to sell a home last month versus 44 days in June during the height of the summer buying season. The Realtors estimate that 4.94 million existing homes will be sold this year, down 3 percent from 5.09 million in 2013. Analysts say sales of roughly 5.5 million existing homes are common in a healthy real estate market. October sales improve d
in the Northeast, Midwest and South compared to the previous month, but purchases declined in the West.
The uptick in activity caused the inventory of homes on the market to slip to 5.1 months. When the supply of homes for sale falls beneath 5 months, it usually signals accelerating price growth. Lower mortgage rates in recent weeks have improved affordability, though sales have yet to rise substantially. Average 30-year mortgage rates have been hovering around 4 percent, down nearly half a percentage point since January.
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Separately, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday that applications for building permits rose 4.8 percent in October to 1.08 million, evidence that construc tion activity could increase next year.
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Still, other reports suggest that home sales could improve in 2015. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo index rose to 58 this month, up from 54 in October, a sign that sales of newly-built homes should continue to improve over the next six months. Readings above 50 indicate more builders view sales conditions as good rather than poor.
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Realtors project THE ASSOCIATED PRESS will fall below 2014 sales out or renovate and resell. 2013 levels. Over the past 12 months, “Continued gains in the share of homes being WASHINGTON — existing home sales are bought by investors has Americans bought homes going to be difficult,� said slipped to 15 percent in October at the briskest from Ted Wieseman, an analyst 19 percent, according pace this year, a sign to at Morgan Stanley. the Realtors. As the real that the sluggish housing estate market has mended Home sales slumped market is turning around. from the recession, the through much of 2014 Sales of existing homes opportunity has eroded after a three-year rally in rose 1.5 percent to a for investors to profit the wake of the recession . seasonally adjusted annual from buying homes at Harsh winter weather rate of 5.26 million last steep discounts. crippled sales at the month, the National beginning of 2014, just Just 4 percent of the as Association of Realtors said tight credit, rising home single-family houses sold Thursday. That’s up from prices and essentially in the third-quarter were a revised pace of 5.18 flat incomes increasin flipped by investors, gly million in September. limited the number of who frequently bought October marked the first buyers who could afford distresse d properties on a month in 2014 when sales home. the cheap, fixed them up increased compared to and put them back on a At the same time, the year ago, registering a market, according to a investors are backing 2.5 percent gain. off report released Thursday properties to either rent by housing data firm
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LAWRENCE FREE STATE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT ACTORS hang out in the hallway during a dress rehearsal for the play “The Love of Three Oranges.� From left are Donkey, played by John Kihm; an Orange, played by Morgan McReynolds; Prince, played by Nathaniel Hoopes; Clown, played by Ryan Leibold; and Country Bumpkin, played by Clara Nazareth. The play will be performed at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday in the Free State High School auditorium.
County’s per capita income near bottom
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hen it comes to Lawrence residents feeling good about their economic lot in life, there is one number that isn’t helping much: per capita income. The federal government today has released the latest numbers for per capita income by county, and Douglas County is still near the bottom of the list in Kansas. Per capita personal
Douglas comes in at 91 out of 105 income in Douglas County — that is everything from wages to stock dividends to Social Security payments — was $36,911 in 2013. Out of the 105 counties in Kansas, Douglas County checked in at No. 91. For years, people have kind of discounted Douglas County’s low per capita
income numbers because we have a number of university students who don’t really earn much money but rather live off support from their parents. That brings the per capita average down. That is certainly a factor, but it probably
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This has been a difficult week at Haskell Indian Nations University. Emotions are running high on the small campus after two male students were arrested and charged with raping a female student last weekend in a residence hall. Haskell cannot brush this Chenault under the rug, said university President Venida Chenault, who reacted to the assault in an interview this week with the Journal-World. She called it an example of why the university and Indian Country as a whole must keep pushing for awareness and education to combat violence against women. “Healing begins when we start talking honestly about the truth,� Chenault said. “We have to confront it and own it, and we have to work to create change. It’s a really tough issue.�
‘Not our ways’ Violence against indigenous women is Chenault’s academic area of expertise. She
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Family mourns Lawrence woman slain in quadruple homicide Twin sister says sibling had hit a rough patch and ‘gotten in the wrong crowd’ By Caitlin Doornbos Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos
Family and friends are mourning a 29-year-old Lawrence woman who police say was shot to death Saturday morning in a quadruple homicide at a Springfield, Mo., motel room. Danielle Joanna Keyes and Springfield residents Lewis Green, 44, and Trevor Fantroy,
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Scott said. He died Wednesday of his injuries. Springfield police have yet to determine a suspect in the killings, Scott said. “Detectives are following up on numerous leads in an attempt to identify and locate those responsible,� she said. Keyes’ sister, Dawn Keyes, also of Lawrence, said Danielle Keyes had left their Lawrence
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43, were pronounced dead inside their motel room, after Springfield police responded to a call of multiple people who “appeared to be injured� about 7:45 a.m. Saturday, Springfield Police Department spokeswoman Cora Scott said. A third man, Christopher Freeman, 24, was also found in the room and was transported to a hospital in critical condition,
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home in August for Springfield — something that the 2004 Perry-Lecompton High School graduate and mother of three had done before. “Danielle went to Springfield once before and I searched frantically for her,� Dawn Keyes said. “When she came back, I held on to her tight for an hour.� Please see HOMICIDE, page 6A
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