Here’s a graphic snapshot of how the Tri-Cities’ metro area economies are performing as measured by real GDP compliments of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Bureau of Economi… Read More

­­­­­­ Takeaways The lowest local median all-cash discount in Q1 was Washington Co. VA. Carter County was the only local market where the local median cash disco… Read More

  The number of Tri-Cities seriously delinquent mortgages have dropped to four-year lows. According to CoreLogic’s current Foreclosure and Delinquent Mortgage Report, the number o… Read More

The two last reports to track March’s economic indicators are in and both are as positive as the job creation, employment and salary reports posted earlier on this site. Tri-Cities emp… Read More

The Tri-Cities’ economy got a double dose of good news in March. Employment and the average private wage continued trending higher. The news was especially good for the Johnson City me… Read More

The Tri-Cities labor market continued gaining steam in March, and the unemployment rate dropped to an eight-year low. Employment and new nonfarm jobs increased by a little over 1,000 each fr… Read More

Cash was king for Northeast Tennessee home sales during the first three months of this year – even though four of the  local markets in the RealtyTrac Q1 Home Sales Report saw the… Read More

March’s average gains for sellers in Washington and Sullivan counties garnered a lot of attention because they exceeded the national average. That’s good news for those who sold… Read More

March was a very good month for Washington County home sellers. Their average price gain hit a 76-month high and was a little better than three times higher than the national average. OK, OK… Read More

Here’s how the first quarter average rents on three-bedroom homes looked during Q1 this year compared to the first quarter in previous years. The were up in 10 zip codes, down in anoth… Read More

Here’s a quickie look at some new home market data thanks to the folks at metrostudy and Builder Magazine. During the 12 months ending in December there were 189 new home sales in the… Read More

Tri-Cities home price continued climbing in February and the pace increased dramatically in the Johnson City MSA. CoreLogic’s February all-sales home price index shows the year-to-year… Read More

    A double-digit drop in Q1 rents on three-bedroom homes in Washington County gave Sullivan County a razor-thin edge as the better market for those looking to buy single-family r… Read More

Written by: Laryssa Mykyta, U.S. Census Bureau, and Natasha Pilkauskas, University of Michigan Studies have shown that “doubling up,” or sharing housing, increased during the las… Read More

Private sector wages in the Johnson City MSA posted the second straight month of strong increases in February. Kingsport-Bristol experienced the same upswing, but for the first time in almos… Read More

Nonfarm job creation in the Tri-Cities was up for the 11th straight month in February, and the seven-county region’s unemployment rate dropped to a preliminary, non-adjusted eight-year… Read More

Nonfarm job creation in the Tri-Cities was up for the 11th straight month in February, and the seven-county region’s unemployment rate dropped to a preliminary, non-adjusted eight-year… Read More

What an example of a good news, bad news story? Try this one: Housing affordability in Sullivan and Washington counties has decreased because home prices have grown much faster than wages. W… Read More

The Johnson City MSA claimed 98% of the Tri-Cities’ net migration from July 1, 2014 to July 1, 2015. It was enough to give the three-county MSA a population increase of 500 for the one… Read More

A drill-down on January job sectors data show the Kingsport-Bristol labor market continues a stronger recovery posture than the Johnson City MSA. Nonfarm jobs in the region made a big, but u… Read More

The Tri-Cities began 2016 with a big year-to-year increase in nonfarm jobs. The local recovery also remained uneven. Kingsport-Bristol MSA has more jobs than before the recession while the J… Read More

How many times have you heard someone say, “the Pinnacle is sucking all the oxygen out of retail in the Tri-Cities?” There’s little argument that Steve Johnson’s outd… Read More

  Tri-Cities sales tax collections increased for the 10th straight month in January when compared to the same months of the previous year. Kingsport-Bristol saw the largest increase, 5… Read More

  Greene Co. house flippers raked in an average gross return on profit four times higher than the national average last year. It and five other area county markets also saw the populari… Read More

Tri-Cities home prices moved higher than their December or January levels at a slower pace than the national CoreLogic All-Sales Home Price Index rate. In Johnson City, prices increased by 5… Read More

Johnson City property loan originations down; purchases claiming largest share of activity Residential property loan activity in the Johnson City MSA saw the same second straight quarterly d… Read More

Fourth quarter Kingsport-Bristol residential property loan originations were down for the second straight quarter.  RealtyTrac’s Residential Property Loan Origination Report shows… Read More