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Ritholtz.com/blog/

But given the remorseless rise in unemployment, which, if anything, is destined to accelerate in the months ahead, the simple fact that so many people are too strapped to afford to buy a home, is, we believe, the most formidable barrier to even a tep

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Ritholtz.com

Assume that this couple are late 20s/early 30s, and are making decent — but not 6 figure — salaries. Can they afford that starter house? If not, then the entire real estate chain is frozen.

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NBCNewYork.com via e-mail from 'Winslow Joan**

On Sunday, hundreds of angry homeowners ... protested outside Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack’s multi-million-dollar mansion to tell the wealthy finance czar how they really feel.

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Reuters

[as long as bottom means another third drop in value] U.S. housing markets from Florida to California have suffered price drops of 50% or more from their peak, but now, at long last, a bottom is within sight, likely in the fourth quarter nationally,

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Jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/

We would tend to treat 1995 as a 'lower bound' which might be more valid for those areas which had appreciated the parabolic increases from the bubble period.

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Calculatedriskblog.com

There is probably even more excess housing inventory gumming up the market than current statistics indicate, thanks to a wave of foreclosures that has yet to hit the market.

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Washington Post

What is not clear, however, is whether rates are attractive enough to lure a significant number of home buyers back into the ailing housing market. Interest rates on conforming mortgages dropped to an average of 5.01 percent for the week ending Jan.

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money.cnn.com

The housing market hasn't bottomed out yet. For the third quarter, the closely-watched S&P Case-Shiller national home-price index fell 16.6%, and experts are predicting further declines. Of the top 100 markets, here are 10 with the worst forecast

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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com

Single-family starts were at 441 thousand in November; the lowest level ever recorded (since 1959). Single-family permits were at 412 thousand in November, suggesting single family starts may fall even further next month.

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