There are too many sales in markets that are affordable to first-time buyers, driven by foreclosures and short sales, and too few sales in expensive parts of town thanks to a lack of financing and the impression that prices are coming down.
China's Lenovo Group, number two in the market, is benefiting from sales to first-time buyers in China and other developing countries.
The expiration of last year's tax tax credit for first-time home buyers have kept home sales numbers below 2009's levels, according to the National Association of Realtors.
"Foreclosure sales, short sales and first-time homebuyers taking advantage of tax credits is purely illusionary and hides the underlying problems of lending and inventory, " says Anthony Sanders, a finance professor at George Mason University's Hall School of Management.
The main theme slowing sales - especially first time buyers - seemed to be difficulty getting a mortgage.
The first-time entrepreneurs have four employees, 75 sales consultants, and a board of directors that includes an executive at J.
Dell had the inventory problem whipped--it doesn't build anything until it has an order in hand--but its phone-based sales staff wasn't very good at selling to first-time buyers.
Netbooks, which have lower price points and focus on basic computing functions, rather than frills, appeal to children, travelers and first-time Internet users in emerging markets, where sales are expected to be particularly strong.
His is a "typical first-time buyers property", he says, but sales have fallen through twice owing to buyers struggling to get mortgage deals.
The Guangzhou-based developer added that first-time home buyers made up 64% of its sales last month, and that most of its sales were in second- and third-tier cities.
The new four-door sport utility is a rare sales hit for Chrysler and doubly important because it's attracting first-time Jeep buyers to Chrysler-Jeep showrooms.
The Consumer Electronics Association has already slashed its projection for fourth-quarter sales--it will be flat from last year--even as tech tracker iSuppli predicts sales of flat-panel televisions in 2009 will fall for the first time on record.
Data from research firm Gartner showed that global mobile phone sales fell last year for the first time since 2009, although the drop was led by old-fashioned devices, with sales of smartphones such as Apple's iPhone continuing to rise.
First-time home buyers made up 30 percent of existing home sales in February, well below the 40 percent that is typical in a healthy market.
Nonetheless, the housing market continues to be a troubling factor in many areas of the country (Florida, for example), and the expiration of the first-time homebuyers' tax credit--which boosted home sales earlier this year--could cause a further temporary slowdown in housing, says Brookings' Wial.
International revenue surpassed domestic U.S. revenue for the first time, as sales in the rapidly growing BRIC countries--Brazil, Russia, India and China--expanded 58%.
Housing sales picked up in the second quarter, with first-time home buyers and those moving up accelerated purchases as the central bank eased policy and local governments lifted some restrictions.
Sales of flat-panel televisions are falling for the first time ever.
Acer projects sales will increase by more than 50.0% as first-time computer users in developing markets snap up the small, cheap laptops.
In a letter to the Center for Reproductive Rights denying the petition, the FDA disclosed for the first time that Teva would have had three years of exclusivity for full non-prescription sales of Plan B One-Step if the application had been approved.
Recorded-music sales in the U.S. edged up for the first time since 2004, according to Nielsen SoundScan, thanks to lower prices, growing digital song sales and a massive hit from the singer Adele, whose album "21" sold more copies than any title in the last seven years.
The Milwaukee-based company saw domestic retail sales rise in the second quarter for the first time in five years.
Their total purchases and sales were 0.46% of total turnover in 1998 - the first time in seven years that the figure fell below 0.5%.
Prosecutors indicted Nacchio for 42 stock sales completed in the first five months of 2001 when Qwest financials were rocky because it was using money from the one-time sales to meet revenue targets.
"21's" midway-point sales figures also mark another first in the SoundScan era -- it's the first time just one album has sold over a millioncopies in the year's first six months.
What's more, Rosen is returning at a time when the live-events business is drooping badly--for the first half of 2010 ticket sales for the top 100 concert tours in North America slipped nearly 12%, according to trade magazine Pollstar.
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