{"id":40262,"date":"2013-07-01T05:46:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T10:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=40262"},"modified":"2013-07-01T05:46:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T10:46:48","slug":"ohio-home-sales-continue-to-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/07\/01\/ohio-home-sales-continue-to-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio home sales continue to increase"},"content":{"rendered":"

Real estate market news<\/em><\/p>\n

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Association of Realtors reports that the number of single-family homes and condominiums put under agreement in May rose for the 25th consecutive month, compared to the results from the prior year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith each passing month, we\u2019re continuing to make steady, significant progress in rebuilding a solid foundation for stable, growing housing marketplace in Ohio,\u201d said OAR President Thomas J. Williams. \u201cIt\u2019s evident that buyers are not only confident that homeownership is a wise, long-term investment, but are eager to take advantage of the ideal conditions that exist in today\u2019s marketplace with favorable pricing and low interest rates.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ohio\u2019s May Pending Home Sales Index of 145.6, a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, rose 20.1 percent from the May 2012 index score of 121.2.<\/p>\n

An index of 100 is equal to the average level of contract activity during 2008, which marked the end of five consecutive record years for existing home sales and the onset of the recession. Activity levels in 2008 are reflective of a historically healthy, balanced market. The May 2013 pending sales index of 145.6 marks a 45.6 percent increase from the benchmark May 2008 index of 100. Additionally, the current results also best the PHSI marks posted during the month in Ohio in 2009 (89.0), 2010 (70.4) and in 2011 (101.8).<\/p>\n

A pending sale or a sale \u201cunder agreement\u201d is when the buyer and seller agree on terms of the sale of a home and have a signed purchase and sale agreement, but have yet to close and be recorded as such.<\/p>\n

OAR, the largest professional trade association in the state with 26,000 members, is the only organization that compiles this statewide information from selected Multiple Listing Services each month. The tracking of \u201cpending sales\u201d provides reliable information about where the market is heading in coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Real estate market news COLUMBUS — The Ohio Association of Realtors reports that the number of single-family homes and condominiums put under agreement in May rose for the 25th consecutive month, compared to the results from the prior year. \u201cWith each passing month, we\u2019re continuing to make steady, significant progress in rebuilding a solid foundation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-realestate"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-02 11:59:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}