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February 8, 2007
Today's Housing Bubble Post - Still Falling
-- by Dave Johnson
Housing still falling, midyear bottom in sight, economists say,
The U.S. housing market has not reached bottom and will likely not begin to recover until the middle of this year, three housing economists said this week.Yep, good times are "just around the corner." Unless, of course, you look at the long-term median prices, run-up charts, affordability, default rates, foreclosures, etc.The weakness will extend to existing-home and new-home sales and housing starts as well as to home prices, which are likely to show their first full-year decline nationally since records have been kept, the economists told home builders at their annual convention here.
"I don't think we've seen the bottom," said David Berson, chief economist for Fannie Mae. "We're going to see a much bigger drop in investor demand this year. But by the second half of the year the market will stabilize, if investors pull out quickly."
In other news, HSBC warns over US mortgage bad debt,
HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank, last night gave warning that bad debts in its troubled US mortgage lending business would be 20 per cent higher than forecast.And more bad news, see Home Lenders Plunge as More Subprime Mortgages Sour and Subprime meltdown ...The bank blamed the impact of slowing house price growth, which it said is being reflected in accelerated delinquency trends across the US sub-prime mortgage market. It said that the level of loan impairment provisions for 2006 for its mortgage services operations will be higher than is reflected in current market estimates.
Posted by Dave Johnson at February 8, 2007 11:33 AM
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Bubbles are popping everywhere the days...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CABGPFV8OwE
Posted by: rchrdvince at February 14, 2007 9:14 AM
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