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On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau jointly released their report on new residential sales for August 2017, which showed improvement.

According to Black Knight Financial Service’s July Housing Market Index report, home prices are still appreciating, but at a slower rate than earlier in the year.

Earlier this week, MReport and DS News sat down with Jorge Ponce, Director of Business Development & Implementation at FirstClose; Joey McDuffee, Director at Wipro Gallagher Solutions; and Kevin Watson, District Manager, Middle Tennessee at Churchill Mortgage to discuss inventory woes in the housing market. In Part Two of this three-part series, we discussed potential incentives to getting more homes into the marketplace.

In what might seem contrary to reduced figures on existing-homes for sale for August, the most recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau on housing start for the month points toward optimism in the housing market.

According to the National Association of Realtors Existing-Home Sales report for August, total inventory dropped again, which is the fourth time in five months that a decline was recorded.

A recent study conducted a national survey to determine the largest barriers of home ownership at determined by potential buyers, and the results could be surprising.

DS News sat down with Jorge Ponce, Director of Business Development & Implementation at FirstClose; Joey McDuffee, Director at Wipro Gallagher Solutions; and Kevin Watson, District Manager, Middle Tennessee at Churchill Mortgage to discuss inventory woes and the future of the market in this exclusive three-part roundtable.

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