Although some believe bargain basement prices for distressed properties may be ending, a large inventory still exists.
The industry is expected to recover slowly as a large inventory of homes will maintain downward pressure on pricing.
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Changes in vacancies and inventories are strongly correlated: for example, San Jose, Bakersfield and Seattle all had large vacancy declines and large inventory declines year over year (using NAR inventory data).
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Further, we anticipate carriers will not build large inventory levels for BB10, consistent with prior BB7 high-end launches, and will initially stock modest levels given the weaker consumer demand for high-end BlackBerry smartphones.
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While this means that customers who missed the Rochas coat during the trunk show might be able to find it on the site months later, during the normal fall shopping season, it also means that Moda needs to buy, store and sell a large inventory of clothing, just like a department store or Net-a-Porter.
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So, the rapid absorption rate and hence declining inventory of existing homes is telling us that there are relatively few vacancies, inspite of a potentially large shadow inventory.
The biggest threat is a large shadow inventory of unsold homes, homes which owners won't put on the market because they are underwater, homes that will be foreclosed eventually and homes owned by lenders.
However, there remains the problem of large amount of inventory remaining on the market.
Interestingly when HomeAway launches in a new market it often already has a large piece of inventory from renters in other countries.
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They rely on recruiting new representatives to profit (not product sales), charge reps large upfront fees and convince them to buy large amounts of inventory that is not returnable.
While the national foreclosure rate has waned this year, certain markets continue to work through a large overhang of shadow inventory, such as the Georgia cities on our list.
Housing drops again, after banks release a large chunk of their foreclosure inventory onto the market.
In general, he says, there is less overhead for service-based businesses, which don't require large outlays for equipment and inventory.
In our view, returning to a more normal proportion of distressed sales will take several years, given the large number of borrowers with negative equity, the large current delinquency and foreclosure inventory, and the long current foreclosure timelines.
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This retail sub-sector has rebounded in part due to strong balance sheet management and inventory controls by the large retailers.
"I knew one guy who would actually pay rent to use half of another guy's locker because his locker wasn't large enough to store all his inventory, " he says.
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Are there -- some of these smaller vessels have radios on them, have we done an effective inventory of which ones are large enough and have enough trained personnel that they can actually lay boom or they can engage in skimming?
Thirty years ago, if you were a shop owner, you spent a large chunk of your time poring over inventory, keeping your books, clinking away at your calculator, double checking your numbers, and going through enough correction fluid to whitewash a fence.
We're looking at what else is there that would really add a large number of eyeballs and a great ad inventory base to your existing business.
All businesses--small and large alike--would do well to take inventory of the educational needs in the communities they serve.
As mentioned above, the shadow inventory looms and inventories are still relatively large.
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"A good bit was inventory, but it was obvious that there was a large demand for phones to be unlocked and shipped abroad, " the analyst said.
Generally, this trend with inventory suggests that automotive dealers are striving for just in time (JIT) inventory, hoping to reduce the waste that comes with unnecessarily large inventories and high carrying costs.
MSRC's capabilities include a significant inventory of vessels, equipment and trained personnel, complemented by a large contractor work force.
The "bricks and clicks" model, as Lehigh University's Snyder describes it, calls for moving some goods to large centralized distribution centers, which have the economies of scale to lower the carrying costs of inventory.
Management expected the gap between revenue growth and inventory growth to close in the fourth quarter, but I am not sure that went down to any large degree given unseasonable weather.
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