housing-market

Now that America's housing market is so poorly, the fear of infection elsewhere is spreading like a bad case of the flu.

This volatility is typical of a housing market dragging along the bottom and mirrors the testing economic conditions.

The U. S. housing market isn't in good shape, but it's frightening to think how bad it would be if mortgage rates weren't this low.

after months of bad news for the U. S. housing market, perhaps a bit of good news could be coming.

Second, would stability in the housing market be enough to turn around the economy?

A Deutsche spokeswoman said: 'As the PSI report correctly states, there were divergent views within the bank about the U. S. housing market.

Every time he opened his mouth this summer he said we need to fix the housing market and buy mortgage-backed securities.

"It does not fix the housing market, though, but it might be the beginning of the end of the crash, " he said.

The U. S. housing market has been a mess since the collapse of home prices in 2007 and is showing few signs of improvement.

The housing market in many -- though not all -- Chinese cities seems to have nearly ground to a halt.

But then the bottom fell out of the housing market and Simmons, with its large debt, stumbled.

A notable development over the course of 2004 has been a turnaround in the housing market and a slowing in household credit growth.

But it is difficult to see policy makers pushing sales quickly since the housing market is still on shaky ground.

Another unknown factor that will determine how much the economy grows in the second half of the year is the housing market.

"Overall my consensus is to wait another year to see how the housing market settles and see how capital gains plays out, " says DeRose.

This feature led to massive losses and would have done so, according to one CDO investor, even if the housing market had not collapsed.

The American housing market seems to be suffering from the unravelling of a Ponzi-type system.

So those businesses have been slow to improve, but Buffett predicted the U. S. housing market will begin to recover within the next year.

Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan said the overhaul was "only one piece of a broader strategy to help the housing market. "

But inflation does not seem to be a threat with the current softness in the American housing market.

Despite a year of government effort, a tentative recovery in the housing market appears to be on the verge of stalling.

The administration's prayer was that the housing market would be healing by now; the prayer wasn't granted.

One of the clouds hanging over the global economy at the moment is the US housing market.

Key elements of this forecast are our assessments that the housing market is beginning to stabilize.

He also forecast a recovery in the housing market "within a year or so" and that "America's best days lie ahead. "

Home-builder Lennar Corp also struck cautiously optimistic note on the housing market and said it was on track to make a profit this year.

Thanks to this demand, the ultraluxury market in select cities is looking healthier than practically any other corner of the housing market.

It plans to use the proceeds to expand residential construction as a surge in bank lending drives a pick-up in the housing market.

"We're starting to get a mixed picture, which suggests to me the housing market might be reaching for a bottom, " Gendreau says.

Just over a decade ago, most Chinese lived in homes provided by their danwei, or work unit, and there was no housing market to speak of.

Despite a strong pickup in manufacturing and a much-improved housing market, the outlook for the US economy remains mixed.

One of the key factors for the economy will be a recovery in the housing market, although there are few signs of that yet.

The index is the first of many reports to be released this week giving the latest assessments of the U. S. housing market.

The same irrational quirk is now playing out in the U. S. housing market.

Treasury Secretary Paulson told skeptical lawmakers that the two-year long slump in the U. S. housing market is the cause of the crisis.

Because the Chinese like a good deal. With the U. S. housing market down double digits, they're coming here, shopping for a bargain.

Similar to the U. S. , they're weighed down with heavy debts from a housing market that went bust only a few years ago.

The housing market continues to be very fragile and could be threatened further by rising job losses.

But an article in the bank's latest Monthly Bulletin shows that it is the housing market that the ECB is watching most keenly.

However, he adds, it's hard to see financial stocks rallying without some sign that the housing market is stabilizing.

Higher unemployment would be one possibility: it might turn the housing-market correction into a rout.

Director of the PIBA mortgage-brokers group, Rachel Doyle, said the squeeze on bank lending was hindering a recovery in the housing market.

The housing market remains weak and the overhang of vacant or foreclosed houses are weighing on home prices and home construction, he said.

The group, whose outlook is usually relatively upbeat, has become pessimistic amid mounting energy prices and housing-market worries.

'So far we are seeing, at worst, an orderly decline in the housing market, ' he said.

The building frenzy aims to placate citizens angry that property speculation has priced them out of the non-subsidized housing market.

We have got to get the balance right between serving home owners better and encouraging responsibility in the housing market.

For that, you need the baroque superstructure of mortgage-backed derivatives that enabled investors to bet on the housing market.

So far, President-elect Barack Obama has not said exactly what he wants to do about the nation's housing market bust.

China and others have introduced measures to take the heat out of the housing market.

Once supply and demand balance out, our housing market will be able to recover -- and that will help our broader economy begin to grow.

We need to see stronger job growth and reduced uncertainty before households will be ready and willing to jump back into the housing market.

They did not have sufficient capital to cope with a severe setback in the housing market or markets generally.

This 'search theory' has since been applied to a host of other topics, from the housing market to the search for a spouse.

When the housing market collapsed, Citigroup suffered billions of dollars in losses that dwarfed the fees it had collected.

Even Republicans who dislike Fannie and Freddie talk of a careful transition and of not damaging the housing market.

It would be the second straight day a report showed weakening in the housing market following the expiration of the homebuyer tax credit.

The housing market is also slowing. Sales fell by almost 12% in October, compared with a year earlier.

The current fear is not so much that the housing market could drive America into recession, although that could still happen.

But a more balanced housing market could reveal a bigger problem: the true state of local government finances.

In south London, Brixton, Streatham and Camberwell continue to move up in the housing market.

Like the toxic versions that were undone by the collapse in the American housing market, these products involve the use of derivatives.

In general, the housing market in San Francisco has not been hit as hard as many other areas of the United States.

Almost no one is arguing about whether the U. S. Housing market is in decline these days.

Then the U. S. housing market slumped, dragging Chinese furniture exporters down with it.

Deflation across the economy is not a problem (yet), but deflation in the housing market is the source of many of our present difficulties.

Spooked urban consumers are pulling back from China's housing market, causing new construction to collapse to its worst level in a decade.

Those efforts appear to have had the intended effect of braking the housing market's plunge.

Differences between the two parties appear in their approaches to strengthening the U. S. housing market.

Such financial innovation enabled institutions and investors around the world to invest in the U. S. housing market.

But Beijing must strike a fine balance in its bid to kick-start the housing market.

Unemployment has continued to rise, and the housing market is unlikely to show a sustained recovery until job growth resumes.

Many European institutions were up to their necks in securities linked to the American housing market.

The greatest potential, however, is tied up in the housing market.

With its housing market blighted and its consumers growing fearful, America now faces a mounting risk of recession.

But even in Guangzhou, the housing market is in an embryonic stage and is subject to immense fluctuations.

how the hyper-optimism of the housing market jumped, like a social contagion, to the financial markets?

Critics worry that this will only delay a necessary correction in the housing market, but they will almost certainly be ignored.

Volk says the Russian housing market is at a beginning stage, and living conditions differ sharply in various regions of the country.

That program was later rolled out around the country, creating the beginnings of a private housing market.

To accomplish all the above, we need to set up a sound and consistent housing market systems which must be self- modulatory .

For this reason, the housing market is likely to determine interest-rate decisions, not the other way round.

Job growth is strong, manufacturing is on the mend and, by some measures at least, even the housing market is showing signs of life.

However, the inflation of the US housing market was one bubble too far.

One of the key influences on the residential housing market is the mortgage rate, which results from the overall interest rate environment.

Today, nearly two years after the recession officially ended, the housing market is still in trouble.

He suggested the Fed must prevent the US housing market sinking into a depression resembling the Japanese property crisis of the 1980s.

Several investors said those projections may be too optimistic given high unemployment and a poor housing market.

But the carmakers have been completely taken by surprise by the meltdown in the housing market and, above all, by the soaring cost of fuel.

It will help set the tone for the nation's housing market in the next year or two.

If people could afford current home prices on current incomes, the word crisis wouldn't be used in conjunction with the housing market.

It is true that the London housing market seems (who knows? ) to be in the final stages of its biggest-ever bubble.

In a housing market with a large extent of speculation, an increase in land supply may raise rather than lower housing prices.

The goal is to help families keep their homes -- and help avoid further injury to the already weak housing market.

A measure of U. K. property sales adds to recent evidence that the U. K. housing market's slump may be bottoming out.

High unemployment and continued weakness in the housing market are two of the primary reasons the Fed has been able to keep rates low.

Younger families, struggling to get into the housing market, or younger people, aghast at the lack of proper jobs, are in a worse position.

And a spectacular collapse in the local housing market has left seven out of 10 homeowners nursing negative equity.

The gola is to help families keep their homes and help avoid further injury to the already weak housing market.

However, he said that lending conditions in the housing market meant sales could pick up.

The housing market is showing new life after three years of falling prices and too much supply.

If overall GDP is any reflection of the overall housing market, then it may be no surprise that prices in Poland have been rising.

The statement said "economic growth has slowed over the course of the year" , partly reflecting a "cooling of the housing market" .

The housing market has served as a reminder of the potential impact of removing federal support in a fragile economy.

from the current market reaction, the secondary housing market before the period was more active.

The resilience of the housing market owes much to these exceptionally benign credit conditions.

However, its unsavory dealmaking should not obscure that in betting, correctly, against the housing market, it helped mitigate the crash.

But a stronger RMB, and the higher interest rates that might accompany it, would throw more water at the housing market.

There's no doubt that the supply-demand balance in China's housing market is out of whack.

The housing market has dropped off more sharply than we had expected since the end of the homebuyer tax credit.

but I think it's gonna take a while before the stimulus package kicks in, before the housing market can begin to recover.

Ireland's export-driven economy has been especially hard hit by the global crisis and its own domestic housing market crash.

For the US economy, the collapse in confidence in the housing market is perhaps more important than any of those panics.

Meanwhile, the housing market has shown some signs of stabilization but sales continue to be under stress and construction remains muted.

They said during a briefing that the numbers could send "mixed signals" about the health of the U. S. housing market.

China, until recently at least, has been worried about its housing market overheating.

Before we go, things are looking up for a very small housing market.

Prices were supported last spring by a tax credit, but the housing market has struggled since the credit expired.

The figures confirm growing fears that the housing market is starting its second slump since the credit crunch struck three years ago.

Were they to say that, the mortgage market and the housing market would almost surely crash.

Anyone brave enough to jump into today's free-falling housing market can take advantage of some serious incentives.

Raising interest rates would have been another, much blunter solution to the problem of an overheating housing market.

She really was on the ball about the housing market and bought the house at the lowest possible price.

The threat of a US downturn triggered by a sagging housing market means the good times may be nearing an end.

This came as additional evidence emerged of a slowdown in the housing market, heightening fears that house prices may tumble further.

The rate cut is at best a temporary palliative. It will not revive the housing market.

Mr Frey puts much of the blame on the housing market. If you cannot find a buyer for your home, you cannot move to a new one.

Beijing is to introduce a property tax in two Chinese cities, the latest measure aimed at preventing a housing market bubble.

But yields at that level would be too high for the health of the housing market, the stockmarket and for other governments worldwide.

Up until the crash of the U. S. housing market, most considered their homes their biggest source of wealth.

Through the rest of the summer economic trends will be mixed and the housing market may shift unexpectedly bringing worries about loss.

Luxury real-estate sales are booming, say real-estate agents, even as the rest of the housing market craters.

The market haeen a significant laggard, but this may turn around if there is a pick up in the housing market and domestic consumption.

America was where the crisis began, with a housing market bubble that corrupted the financial sector.

A rise in inflation also means that declines in real house prices translate into less negative equity, freeing up the housing market.

For instance, John Paulson, a hedge-fund boss known for his lucrative bet against the housing market, will soon offer a UCITS III product.

And we've initiated, through the Treasury Department, a number of programs like that to help support the housing market generally.

It is not only first-timers stepping back into the housing market. Signs that prices have bottomed have attracted other buyers as well.

It's time for a rethink, in light of the persistently sour housing market.

"These numbers will help to weaken the sense of stability that has recently emerged in the US housing market. "

"The housing market here won't be growing for that reason but it won't be dropping either, " he says.

HEALTH check of America's housing market is bound to be sobering.

She says for now, the goal must be to help the housing market, and the economy, recover.

In fact, during normal operation of the U. S. economy, the housing market relatively low job creation capacity.

The Chinese housing market also seems to be slowing.

Also on Tuesday, a report on home sales that are under contract showed that buyers were flocking back to the housing market.

In contrast, when Mr. Paulson bet against the housing market in 2006, his was an outlier view.

A big part of this prediction is based on signs that the housing market is beginning to improve.

Home sales in the United States dropped between April and March, evidence that the housing market's problems are not over.

However, the sub-prime mortgages were only part of a far more extensive problem affecting the entire $20 trillion US housing market: .

The aim is to unblock the flow of credit market markets now, then sell the securities later, when the housing market improves.

Analysts said this was because demand for the metal was faltering amid concerns about a slowdown in the US housing market.

Stabilizing the housing market, the main trigger of the current economic slump, is crucial for the economy's recovery.

And even as the housing market faltered again, real- estate stocks did slightly better than U. S. equities overall .

Economists say inventory would be cleared in about six months in a healthy housing market.

RMBS investors bear more scars from the crisis than most, for one thing, and the state of the housing market remains fragile.

Given how ugly the housing market looked the past couple of months, this might seem like a tall order, but it stills possible.

The big unknown, however, is whether the housing market slowdown will spread more deeply into the overall economy.

The Detroit area housing market, already deeply depressed, has plummeted since the buyouts.

If the housing market is an accurate indicator, the population of this town is growing rapidly.

The aim is to unblock the flow of credit markets now. Then they sell the securities later, when the housing market improves.

Still, real - estate agents and mortgage lenders are banking on first- time buyers to help stimulate the otherwise dreary housing market.

The American housing market began to decline half a decade ago and hasn't stopped yet.

"The housing market is not as crazy as it seems, " said Huang Tao from Centaline Property Agency.

Like tattoos and bitter family feuds, the US housing market is still there, stubbornly refusing to improve.

Housing market exists such market failure natures that monopoly, asymmetric information, speculation, and imperfect competition.

The U. S. economy faces stiff headwinds, including a slumping housing market and high joblessness.

On the economic issues, the early warning measures could instinctively improve the warning status of urban housing market.

Government interventions to shore up the housing market add an extra element of unpredictability.

The financial crisis originated from the housing market bubble and was preceded by the dotcom boom.

Most prominently, the housing market is still awful, and state and local government budgets are still a mess.

Just as bargain financing couldn't save the housing market, analysts say, a gradual rise in rates won't necessarily crush it.

Just months after showing signs of leveling off, the housing market has thrown off conflicting signals in recent weeks.

Let the United States housing market serve as an example that nothing can go up forever.

The lower mortgage rates can be forced, the better the chances of reviving the housing market.

Mr Obama's hunt for a fix for the housing market may be a fruitless one.

Spain, hit by a huge housing market and construction slump, remained in recession but contracted at a slower pace than before.

With all the turbulence in the housing market, this is no time to play politics with such a critical appointment.

Economists contend that the economy might not emerge from its slump unless the housing market stabilizes.

Growing optimism over the US housing market may be premature, a leading retailer warned yesterday.

In late September figures showed that the American housing market was in free fall, with both sales and prices plunging.

The report says falling home prices as a result of the collapse of the housing market caused most of the drop in wealth.

These measures acted as a strong brake on the housing market.

The weak housing market is largely responsible for an economic crisis that leading to new governmental steps in finical system.

But even as the overall economy has slowed, the government has remained adamant that restrictions on the housing market cannot be lifted.

This provides discipline to the housing market and a cushion of reliable earnings for banks.

The rate cuts came at a time when the housing market was already booming.

US bond prices slipped and German bonds followed suit, both on hopes for a deal and on more upbeat news from the US housing market.

He spoke of how the housing market is 'stabilizing, ' retail sales are resilient and corporate profits climbing.

Household debt remains very high and is expected to constrain retail spending and the housing market for some time.

Just as with the housing market, the good times ended when the economy fell into recession and the credit markets froze.

From the differences, it finds the common grand and sum up the correlation between China's housing market and the urban economy.

Spring is the first good news directly lifted, it was described as the gateway to the housing- market "semi -open " .

The housing market represents about half the total construction work.

Low mortgage rates and depressed home prices have done little to revive the moribund housing market.

Especially when the housing market is crammed with huge bubbles, international hot money must be prohibited from entering China.

The housing market is in turmoil: construction has plunged, house prices are falling and there seems no end in sight.

Like the economy, the housing market seems on the threshold of recovery.

Typically that would be good news for the economy and the beleaguered housing market.

This year should be better as life gradually returns to the U. S. housing market.

Can the world's largest economy somehow navigate a way past the credit crisis, and the continuing deterioration of its housing market?

But he was worried about the state of the housing market, crucial for any home furnishings retailer.

On the other side of the Atlantic the obstacle to recovery is the the bombed-out state of the housing market.

But it is a struggle when your bank is hugely complex, culturally messy and heavily exposed to a still-wobbly housing market.

The recent defaults in the subprime mortgage market may be affecting other bond investors and cutting off credit to the housing market.

Is the unpleasant scent from the U. S. housing market similarly leading policy makers astray?

The housing market is showing new life after 3 years of falling prices and too much supply.

With the housing market in turmoil, even the asset many had come to count on -- the value of their homes -- is threatened.

From a year-to-date perspective, the GTA resale housing market has declined 14 per cent from the 73, 827 transactions recorded a year ago.

We're in a double-dip housing market, largely because unemployment remains so bad that millions of Americans can't pay their mortgages.

Large market share in mortgages could act as a drag if the housing market languishes after government support recedes.

If QE was meant to spur employment, or breathe life into the US housing market, it has yet to work.

People getting pushed out of the housing market include Jiang Yun, a 38-year-old marketing executive in Beijing.

This greater sensitivity is heightened by the fragile state of Britain's housing market.

Joblessness is a drag on the housing market, with many people no longer able to afford their homes.

For another, more money may be required to address the problem in the housing market by providing relief to subprime and marginal borrowers.

A faltering housing market has made it difficult for those struggling with mortgage payments to refinance and pay off debts.

The housing market, which helped push the economy into recession in 2008, is still mired in a slump.

Many economists point to America's moribund housing market as a major contributor to the economic downturn.

He says underlying strength in the housing market is being hidden by the number of foreclosures on the market.

All areas of the economy from the housing market to the high street suffered, raising pressure on politicians to take urgent action.

None of this will help America's moribund housing market.

In Asia, the question is whether China's attempts to rein in its housing market will prompt a broader slowdown.

As the strongest economy in western China, Chengdu's commercial housing market is representative and symbolic.

Illegal immigrants often work as builders and landscapers, two trades that have collapsed along with the housing market.

Common sense suggests no housing market can rise if employment in the area is still declining.

Cleaning up the housing market would help cut America's unemployment rate, by making it easier for people to move to where jobs are.

We do not expect mortgage markets to recover before the housing market stabilizes.

In many ways, the housing market was a Ponzi scheme run by financial institutions and government.

A collapsing housing market in the US, or an oil- induced recession in the west, would prove that bond markets have been right all along.

In these countries, consumers remain over-leveraged and the housing market continues to be weak.

But in the snap and crackle of the Chinese housing market, it is hard to hear anything clearly.

Historically, recoveries in the housing market are slow, and most experts expect the prices to stay low for some time.

One oft-cited sign of the housing market's top: when dinner parties are dominated by stories about fast profits on flipped condominiums.

"Signs of a bounce in the housing market kept the pressure on bonds, " said Carley Garner, senior analyst at Alaron Research in Las Vegas.

The impact of the "credit squeeze" and downturn in the US housing market could be anywhere between mild and severe.

AS BARACK OBAMA casts around for ways to bolster the American economy, one area of focus is a still-moribund housing market.

Its main aim was to keep mortgage interest low which would, in turn, stabilise the US housing market.

Another worry: Recent data on Australia's own economic growth, retail sales and the housing market have been weaker than expected.

Contract signings are usually a reliable indicator of where the housing market is headed.

As the housing market cratered, companies laden with securities backed by home mortgages were teetering.

Mr Rosenberg says government incentive schemes have been behind the housing-market rally and the jump in car sales.

The housing market has been a particular source of worry.

The government's efforts are the primary reason the housing market is functioning at all, economists and housing experts say.

The volatility of housing demand underlines the fragility of the Housing market. This will halt any sustained recovery.

Thus, housing market is prone to be affected by modern financial system, and in turn has a significant influence.

He overestimated the reliability of the dizzying tax revenues from finance and the housing market. He overestimated himself.

Despite the signs of improvement, the housing market is still a shell of what it was during headier times.

A soft landing for a bubbly housing market could help underpin the rebound in the economy in the medium-term.

This provided even more available funds for the housing market at a time that demand was very high after 2001.