New RBI Report Shows Higher Priced Detached Housing Outperforms Attached Housing Market

Rockville, MD –(March 2, 2011) –  RBI, the primary source of real estate data, analytics, and business intelligence for real estate professionals in the Mid-Atlantic region, today released its 2010 year end statistical analysis for the Baltimore metro housing market. The market area includes: Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, Carroll County, Harford County, and Howard County. 

After numbers were tallied for 2010, units sold fell short of the 2009 total but remained relatively consistent with levels of the prior two years,” said noted housing market expert and RBI analyst Jonathan Miller.  “Because unit sales were at about half the peak levels of 2005, overall prices continued to slip.  Lower unit sales resulted from a weak employment picture and conservative mortgage lending.  There was a drop in unit sales and prices in the attached housing market sector as a result of the expiration of the federal homebuyer tax credit. In contrast, detached property prices edged higher as unit sales remained flat.”

Rockville, MD –(February 22, 2011) – Revised data released by RealEstate Business Intelligence (RBI), an MRIS company, the Baltimore metro area housing market began 2011 with a significant increase in the number of pending sales. To track the local housing market and provide a relevant look at the start of the year, the RBI Pending Home Sales Index™ [Baltimore Metro Area] offers a two-year moving window on the housing market using pending sales and median sales price.  The results include pending sales through and including January 2011.  The market area includes: Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, Carroll County, Harford County, and Howard County.