housing markets

The irony that the roots of the crisis lie in housing markets, where turnover costs are high, is often lost on the tax's proponents.

FEARS of a general deflation may be receding but in the rich world's housing markets at least, falling prices are still the norm.

Around much of the rich world, hopes that housing markets would be well on the road to recovery by now have been disappointed.

Slums and squatter settlements are the result of people being priced out of legal land for housing, and housing markets.

After the shock of the financial crisis, most housing markets have at least stabilised, while some have bounced back strongly.

There was more evidence that housing markets may be turning a corner.

Slow and steady housing markets now seem to be in better shape than markets that boomed and busted such as Florida and California.

The Fed's basic model suggests that about 14% of the impact of any interest-rate change on the economy is transmitted via housing markets.

For an excellent exposition of that view, check out, "Just how risky are China's housing markets? "

Cook said that the labor and housing markets still remain weak, which could keep the Fed on the sidelines for a while longer.

Recent declines in the housing markets as well as the equity market's gyrations are eating away at what had been won back.

Plunging housing markets and the credit crunch have put paid to all that.

Housing markets in southern China started to weaken at the beginning of the year and the process has spread.

Almost every item of housing markets, there are bound to break, worked long queues waiting to schedule the scene.

The strains have been made worse by collapsing housing markets and the general economic slowdown.

The IMF has compared house prices in the first quarter of this year with their level a year ago in 52 rich and emerging housing markets.

But for some of the biggest housing markets in the country, those hopes look to be in vain this year.

In hard-hit housing markets like Orlando, Fla. , Riverside, Calif. , and Memphis, Tenn. , thousands of homeowners are risking foreclosure.

Meanwhile, housing markets look shaky just as government schemes to support the sector are ending.

If not, the path to adjustment and stabilisation of American housing markets is sure grow ever longer, and ever more painful.

Plus, if these housing markets ever rebound, there's even likely to be some price appreciation for these homes.

Several of Europe's housing markets are more overpriced, but have lost only a little of their fizz in the past year.

Weak consumer demand and turmoil in the credit and housing markets are the top macro-concerns of top finance executives.

Effects may be amplified by political uncertainty, overvalued housing markets and explosive credit expansion.

Current policy debates should be informed by the interplay of policy, race, and housing markets over the past several decades.

In the United States, the problems started with excesses and defaults in the subprime lending and housing markets.

However, economists say that outside a few cities, there are few signs of excessive price rises in housing markets.

They argued that no lasting recovery would be possible until housing markets were healthier.

Volumes and prices for pulp and paper exports will fall due to the decline in sawn timber production from slower housing markets.

A key unknown: the fate of WaMu's bad assets, which include mortgage loans that have soured as housing markets tanked.

These studies are based on data from a wide variety of housing markets and for projects built in many different years.

low interest rates do less to perk up the economy when housing markets are depressed.

Uncertainty surrounding a recovery in the jobs and housing markets have cast doubt on the pace of the economic recovery.

HOUSING markets continue to strengthen, as The Economist's latest survey of global house prices shows.

Yet it is uncertain whether the government can really pull back without sending housing markets across the country into another tailspin.

Whitewashed buildings housing markets and shops line the streets and are full of memorabilia of the region.

Instead property taxes could be used to cool overheated housing markets.

Meanwhile, depressed housing markets are having little trouble making home affordable all by themselves.

Finally, big losses may yet emerge elsewhere, not least in other countries' overvalued housing markets.

Further adding to the downside risks is the vulnerability of housing markets in high-income countries.

Builder, a trade publication, recently ranked America's healthiest housing markets.

By contrast, in many pre-crisis housing markets buyers routinely took on loans worth 90% or more of the value of the property.

Another couple of twitches were detected in moribund housing markets.

Investors say any enthusiasm about the rally is tempered by uncertainty in Washington, on the economy and on housing markets.

Smaller numbers said rising prices and the financial and housing markets were their biggest economic worries.

The global crises of financial and housing markets are now being superseded by new crises of governments.

A similar case can be made for the Spanish and British housing markets.

"The overall magnitude of this effect is very big, " Mayer told me. "This is an important factor in how housing markets operate. "

Housing markets in the EU were only hot in the UK, Spain and - to a lesser degree - Ireland.

So, too, is the mess in the US (and perhaps quite soon several other developed countries') housing markets.

In this case, the worry was a bubble in Asian stock and housing markets.

What has become a global economic crisis was touched off in August 2007 by a wave of defaults in the sub-prime U. S. housing markets.

With housing markets going into reverse in both countries, there is every likelihood that households will rebuild very low savings ratios.

Now, housing markets within the country are showing the first signs of stabilizing.

In rich countries that threatens to tie down companies and give ailing housing markets a kicking.

Problems in the housing markets are far from over, too.

Major G-10 economies became dominated by asset prices and asset-backed lending most clearly evidenced in housing markets.

But voters in places with battered housing markets got little benefit from either.

In the last cycle, malinvestments in the booming housing markets contrasted with important bottlenecks such as in the commodity sector.

The literature on the interplay between residential mobility and the structure of local housing markets is much less extensive.

There are signs of life in the US and UK housing markets, with anecdotal evidence of frenzied activity in some areas.

Asia's frothiest housing markets are calming down. Is America's bottoming?

There will be less immediate need for plate, stainless and other high-value specialized steel related to the aerospace and housing markets.

Anyway, liquid housing markets should make it possible for people to move, if they want to.

Shares plummeted. So did housing markets, but not in France.

Once-hot housing markets in Spain and Ireland are slowing.

The report released by Canada's Scotiabank tracked the housing markets in 12 advanced economies throughout 2010.

The recession is taking its toll on the housing markets.

Overshadowing third-quarter economic growth of 3. 5% are fears about the weak state of the job and housing markets.

The exalted level of housing markets in most high-income countries is another.

India's share and housing markets also look bubbly.

Covered bonds, for example, could steady housing markets if used to raise long-term fixed rate funding for long-term fixed rate mortgages.

U. S. housing prices have plummeted during the past year, and new figures show further sharp declines in America's biggest housing markets.

While the world awaits 2009 hesitantly , continuing worries on global housing markets has markets jittering.

Housing markets in Britain, Ireland and Spain were every bit as bubbly as in America.

Housing markets have not yet touched bottom.

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