2015 Housing Confidence Slightly Down

BELLEVUE, WA—Top real estate executives continue to be bullish about improvement in the US housing market, but less than they have been over the last two years and have grown significantly less confident in the world economy since January, says a recent 2014 Imprev Thought Leader Survey. “Housing enthusiasm among real estate business leaders overall is still strong, but has definitely cooled down during the last two years,” says Renwick Congdon, chief executive officer of Imprev, a locally based technology company.  

“What’s most interesting is that leaders of larger brokerage firms are typically far more bullish on the outlook for housing and the US economy than leaders of smaller brokerage firms, but comparatively less confident in their firm’s ability to be more profitable in the next 12 months,” says Congdon.