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Published Monday, May 21 2012
An 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...
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Published Saturday, May 19 2012
New 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...
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Published Saturday, May 19 2012
The 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...
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Published Thursday, May 17 2012
Tennessee'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...
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Published Thursday, May 17 2012
According to a report from the George Washington University School of Business, the Federal Housing Administration is increasingly serving home b...
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Published Tuesday, May 15 2012
Tennessee 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...
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Published Monday, May 14 2012
Initial claims for unemployment plunges in Tennessee during April.
According to the Business and Economic Research Center at MTSU, "seasonally a...
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Published Sunday, May 13 2012
Home prices on both CoreLogic's all-sales and non-stressed sales indices improved in the Kingsport-Bristol MSA during March.
It was the second ...
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Published Wednesday, May 9 2012
Kingsport's new home market - as measured by new residential permits - slipped back to the recession status quo in April.
Six new residential pe...
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Published Tuesday, May 8 2012
Johnson City has joined Kingsport-Bristol on the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index.
The index identif...
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Published Saturday, May 5 2012
CoreLogic's foreclosure and delinquent mortgage rates are trailing market indicators in a 24-hour news cycle world anything more than a week old ...
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Published Tuesday, May 1 2012
Local consumers were not making a lot more than their counterparts on the national level during March, but they were spending at a higher rate
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Published Sunday, April 29 2012
After outperforming the national labor market in job creation for most of last year, the local job creation machine has slipped back to its tradit...
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Published Thursday, April 26 2012
Sullivan County residents - especially men - have made some life expectancy gains in the past 20 years, but still lag what residents of the healt...
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Published Tuesday, April 24 2012
New home construction in the Tri-Cities improved in the first quarter with new substantial new permit increases in some - but not all - counties....
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Published Thursday, April 5 2012
There was a cautious up-beat mood among Kingsport builders and building industry representatives this week at the Greater Kingsport Home Builders ...
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Published Sunday, April 1 2012
NOTE - The links in this blog are to expanded stories on the individual economic reports and charts of the monthly and year-over-year performance...
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Published Sunday, March 25 2012
Recruiters at Wellmont, Eastman and other local firms know about it. Realtors who handle relocations are all-too-aware of it. And many developers ...
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Published Sunday, March 25 2012
Recruiters at Welmont, Eastman and other local firms know about it. Realtors who handle relocations are all-too-aware of it. And many developers ...
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Published Tuesday, March 20 2012
About 56,000 Tennesseans will get extended federal unemployment benefits but beginning next month they will have to prove that they're actively lo...
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Published Friday, March 16 2012
Tennessee was one of the 26 states that saw foreclosure filing increase during February and the increase trickled down to the TriCities.
Filing...
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Published Thursday, March 15 2012
Kingsport-Bristol foreclosure and delinquent mortgage rates were up and trending in the opposite direction from state and national rates during t...
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Published Wednesday, March 14 2012
Foreclosure and delinquent mortgage rates increased during the month of December in the Johnson City MSA when compared to the same month last y...
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Published Tuesday, March 13 2012
Middle Tennessee State University's Bureau of Economic Research Center is reporting that initial claims for unemployment insurance in Tennessee ...
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Published Tuesday, March 13 2012
According to the new rankings on Insure.com, the average automobile insurance policy in Tennessee is $1,228.
Tennessee ranks 39th in the nation ra...