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Ready for a Housing Shortage this Year?
With healthy inventories, 3 million foreclosures, more and more short sales, falling values, rising vacancy rates, shrinking rents and one third of all homeowners underwater, could we possibly be heading for a national housing shortage this year?
Mortgage Giant Predicts Strong Housing Recovery Next Year
By: David Lereah; Thu, Dec 17, 2009
Housing activity is expected to be brisk in the New Year according to Fannie Mae's recently released December Housing Forecast.
Fitch Ratings Sees Better Times for Builders in 2010
By: Steve Cook; Tue, Dec 15, 2009
A four-year downturn has evidently come to an end for U.S. homebuilders, according to Fitch Ratings in its outlook report for the sector.
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Moody’s Economist Sees Ten-Year Housing Recovery
By: Steve Cook; Tue, Sep 22, 2009
It will take more than a decade for housing markets to regain the ground that has been lost since 2006 predicted a top economic researcher with Moody's Economy.com yesterday, the second leading housing economist to issue a gloomy recovery forecast in the past week.
Can We Wait for the Echo?
By: Steve Cook; Mon, Jun 22, 2009
It's clear the "echoes" will spawn a record number of households and boost housing demand but it's not such a given that they will become homeowners, at least right away. In fact, in the near term, demographic forces favor the rental over the for-sale market.
Get this widget See local rates - Senate Clears Homebuyer Tax Credit Extension to Pass This Week
- CEOs Launch New Drive for Expanded Homebuyer Tax Credit
- Homebuyer Tax Credit Will Motivate First-time Buyers More than Move-up Buyers
- Congress Passes Homebuyer Tax Credit
By: Steve Cook; Mon, Feb 15, 2010
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