BELLEVUE, WA—Top real estate executives continue to be bullishabout improvement in the US housing market, but less than they have beenover the last two years and have grown significantly less confidentin the world economy since January, says a recent 2014 ImprevThought Leader Survey. “Housing enthusiasm among real estatebusiness leaders overall is still strong, but has definitely cooleddown during the last two years,” says RenwickCongdon, chief executive officer ofImprev, a locally based technology company.
“What's most interesting is that leaders of larger brokeragefirms are typically far more bullish on the outlook for housing andthe US economy than leaders of smaller brokerage firms, butcomparatively less confident in their firm's ability to be moreprofitable in the next 12 months,” says Congdon.
Respondents included more than 270 broker-owners and topexecutives at leading franchises and independent brokerage firmsthat were responsible for nearly half of all US residential realestate transactions last year.
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