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The Black Hills Market Watch gives you daily, weekly and monthly comprehensive analyses of the current real estate market, the historical trends and news that affects your real estate decisions. We also try to provide a rich reference-library collection of checklists, guidelines and tips, for making the most of the properties you buy or sell. We hope you'll enjoy it and offer feedback.

This includes key local market indicators such as median price of sold properties, median price of un-sold properties, days-on-market, price reductions, sales per month, number of currently pending sales, and months of inventory on hand (how long it would take to sell all the currently unsold properties at current rates of sales).

Black Hills Market Watch also tracks key national market indicators such as Federal Housing Price Index, the Pending Home Sales Index, Unemployment Index, GDP growth, Consumer Confidence Index, inflation, Consumer Savings Rate, and mortgage rates.

The Black Hills Market Watch also analyzes the implications of public policy issues that impact local real estate markets, such as stimulus-monies, IRS/Tax Code rules, loan guarantees, Federal Reserve policy, foreclosure regulation, low-income assistance, mortgage financing criteria, and inheritance/wealth-taxes. This includes actions by Federal regulatory and statutory agencies, quasi-governmental financing institutions, Rural Development, South Dakota Housing Development Authority, mortgage lenders, appraisal services, and others.

Finally, the Black Hills Market Watch monitors and analyzes consumers (real estate buyers and sellers), including demographics, and behaviors.

Your many suggestions and requests have proven invaluable in developing a Black Hills Market Watch that addresses the questions most important to consumers, lenders, and real estate agents. Please continue to offer your ideas and make requests via the Comments box below each article.

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