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Housing Market Update & Have the Homebuilders Bottomed?
Builders' Shares Have Been Hot, Sparking Debate Among Investors
The recent rise in home-builder stocks has outpaced broader market indexes, raising the question about whether the slowdown might end sooner for builders than many expect. Plus, how to make sense of today's housing data.
Buy a Newly Built Home Now Or Wait for Prices to Fall Some More?
June Fletcher responds to a reader who has signed a contract to purchase a house from a builder but wonders if it would be best to walk away, wait out the real-estate market and possibly get a better deal.
Tick. Tick. Beware the mortgage time-bomb That ridiculously low-rate ARM seemed like such a good idea at the time. But now, payments will be coming due in a big, big way.
Greenspan: Housing market worst may be over, from MSNBC.com, reports that former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said that the U.S. housing market appears to be emerging from its recent travails and the "worst may well be over." " I suspect that we are coming to the end of the downtrend, as applications for new mortgages, the most important series, have flattened out," he said. "There is a good chance of coming out of this in good shape, but average housing prices are likely to be down this year relative to 2005. I don't know, but I think the worst of this may well be over," he added. Greenspan made his comments at the BMO Financial Group event in Calgary, Canada.
See a Chart of the HGX Housing Index: A TALE OF TWO MARKETS
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