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Government job sector shows biggest drop in Kingsport-Bristol
Published Monday, May 21 2012An early look at the April jobs situation in the Kingsport-Bristol MSA shows the number of jobs in half of the Bureau of Labor Statistics job cate... -
Johnson City MSA April foreclosure filings unchanged from last year
Published Saturday, May 19 2012New foreclosure filings in the three counties that make up the Johnson City MSA totaled 42 in April, unchanged from the same month last year. RE... -
Kingsport - Bristol foreclosure filings exceed national rate
Published Saturday, May 19 2012The Kingsport-Bristol MSA saw a 16.9% increase in new foreclosure filing from April 2011. Of the new filings half were REO bank foreclosures, u... -
Lower unemployment fed by shrinking labor force
Published Thursday, May 17 2012Tennessee's unemployment rate dropped to 7.8% in April. But there's a good-news - bad-news aspect to the lower rate, and it's something to watch... -
Study finds FHA serving high-income borrowers to subsidize losses
Published Thursday, May 17 2012According to a report from the George Washington University School of Business, the Federal Housing Administration is increasingly serving home b... -
New database lists 669 open jobs in Kingsport area
Published Tuesday, May 15 2012Tennessee new online jobs tool is now live. The database is one of Gov. Haslam's campaign promises. It's a searchable list of private-sector job... -
Tenn. jobless claims hit lowest level since 2006
Published Monday, May 14 2012Initial claims for unemployment plunges in Tennessee during April. According to the Business and Economic Research Center at MTSU, "seasonally a... -
The charts that should make Kingsport - Bristol home owners smile
Published Sunday, May 13 2012Home prices on both CoreLogic's all-sales and non-stressed sales indices improved in the Kingsport-Bristol MSA during March. It was the second ... -
Kingsport new home construction slips back to status quo
Published Wednesday, May 9 2012Kingsport's new home market - as measured by new residential permits - slipped back to the recession status quo in April. Six new residential pe... -
Johnson City joins Kingsport - Bristol on Improving Markets Index
Published Tuesday, May 8 2012Johnson City has joined Kingsport-Bristol on the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index. The index identif... -
Kingsport - Bristol , Johnson City delinquent mortgage rates up
Published Saturday, May 5 2012CoreLogic's foreclosure and delinquent mortgage rates are trailing market indicators in a 24-hour news cycle world anything more than a week old ... -
Local consumers spending a higher pace than national rate
Published Tuesday, May 1 2012Local consumers were not making a lot more than their counterparts on the national level during March, but they were spending at a higher rate ... -
Local labor market may be plateauing to new normal
Published Sunday, April 29 2012After outperforming the national labor market in job creation for most of last year, the local job creation machine has slipped back to its tradit... -
Sullivan County residents living longer, but lag healthiest countries
Published Thursday, April 26 2012Sullivan County residents - especially men - have made some life expectancy gains in the past 20 years, but still lag what residents of the healt... -
Tri-Cities new home building sees Q1 increase
Published Tuesday, April 24 2012New home construction in the Tri-Cities improved in the first quarter with new substantial new permit increases in some - but not all - counties.... -
Kingsport new home construction up in March
Published Thursday, April 5 2012There was a cautious up-beat mood among Kingsport builders and building industry representatives this week at the Greater Kingsport Home Builders ... -
Kingsport's economy posts encouraging results in Feb.
Published Sunday, April 1 2012NOTE - The links in this blog are to expanded stories on the individual economic reports and charts of the monthly and year-over-year performance... -
Kingsport - Sullivan Co. new home shortage nettles recruiters, builders, Realtors
Published Sunday, March 25 2012Recruiters at Wellmont, Eastman and other local firms know about it. Realtors who handle relocations are all-too-aware of it. And many developers ... -
Don't look now but there's a new homes shortage in Kingsport - Sullivan Co.
Published Sunday, March 25 2012Recruiters at Welmont, Eastman and other local firms know about it. Realtors who handle relocations are all-too-aware of it. And many developers ... -
Extended jobless benefits comes with new rule to prove job searches
Published Tuesday, March 20 2012About 56,000 Tennesseans will get extended federal unemployment benefits but beginning next month they will have to prove that they're actively lo... -
Kingsport - Johnson City foreclosure filings follow national uptrend
Published Friday, March 16 2012Tennessee was one of the 26 states that saw foreclosure filing increase during February and the increase trickled down to the TriCities. Filing... -
Kingsport-Bristol delinquent mortgage, foreclosure rates up
Published Thursday, March 15 2012Kingsport-Bristol foreclosure and delinquent mortgage rates were up and trending in the opposite direction from state and national rates during t... -
Johnson City foreclosure, delinquent mortgage rates up
Published Wednesday, March 14 2012Foreclosure and delinquent mortgage rates increased during the month of December in the Johnson City MSA when compared to the same month last y... -
Tenn initial jobless claims hit 4-year low in Feb.
Published Tuesday, March 13 2012Middle Tennessee State University's Bureau of Economic Research Center is reporting that initial claims for unemployment insurance in Tennessee ... -
Tenn. ranks 34th in nation for car insurance cost - avg. policy $1,228
Published Tuesday, March 13 2012According to the new rankings on Insure.com, the average automobile insurance policy in Tennessee is $1,228. Tennessee ranks 39th in the nation ra...
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