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Housing: What the Experts See Ahead

December 16th, 2008 · Permalink

BusinessWeek Online - Everyone is worried about the real estate market, whether it’s because they want to sell, buy, or want a sense of whether their homes will regain value. As proposals to help the housing market are debated in Washington, BusinessWeek turned to leading real estate experts for their reading of where housing is […]

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New York’s Impending Real Estate Doom

December 4th, 2008 · Permalink

A hastily drafted moratorium on foreclosures has kept many New Yorkers in their homes. It’s about to change.
New York City has been the big holdout in the U.S. housing meltdown. Wealthy foreigners flush with weak dollars and a finite supply of pricey Manhattan condominiums have kept the market moving.
But the New York hiatus from a […]

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US housing starts, permits fall to 16-year lows

April 16th, 2008 · Permalink

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US housing starts and construction permits fell to 16-year lows in March, the government said Wednesday, in a fresh sign of contraction in the troubled real estate market.
The Commerce Department said US March housing starts fell 11.9 percent to a 947,000 unit annual rate, down from an upwardly revised 1.075 million […]

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AP poll: Mortgage payments worry many

April 14th, 2008 · Permalink

WASHINGTON - One in seven mortgage holders worry they may soon fail to make their monthly payments and even more fret that their home’s value is shrinking, according to a poll showing widespread stress from the nation’s housing crisis.
In an ominous snapshot of how the sagging real estate market and sour economy are intersecting, the […]

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Poll: More Americans staying out of housing market (Houston Chronicle)

April 14th, 2008 · Permalink

WASHINGTON - A growing majority say they won’t buy a home anytime soon, the latest sign of increasing pessimism about the nation’s housing crisis, a poll showed Monday.
In a vivid sketch of how the sputtering real estate market is causing distress throughout the country, the Associated Press-AOL Money & Finance poll found that more than […]

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Bad Housing Market Great Time To Buy (KMGH 7 Denver)

April 10th, 2008 · Permalink

Today’s poor real estate market has buyers and sellers changing strategies.
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Too soon to look for housing market bottom (MSNBC)

March 26th, 2008 · Permalink

Housing market watchers say recent optimism about a pick-up in home sales is premature, and that this spring will likely be another washout for the residential real estate market.
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Too soon to look for housing market bottom (MSNBC)

March 25th, 2008 · Permalink

Housing market watchers say recent optimism about a pick-up in home sales is premature, and that this spring will likely be another washout for the residential real estate market.
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