Home Prices Through August 2009
Posted By Barry Ritholtz On October 28, 2009 @ 6:15 am In Real Estate | Comments Disabled
Nice interactive chart in the NYT, in an article [1] that is surprisingly realistic:
“Even as new figures show house prices have risen for three consecutive months, concerns are growing that the real estate market will be severely tested this winter.
Artificially low interest rates and a government tax credit are luring buyers, but both those inducements are scheduled to end. Defaults and distress sales are rising in the middle and upper price ranges. And millions of people have lost so much equity that they are locked into their homes for years, a modern variation of the Victorian debtor’s prison that is freezing a large swath of the market.”
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Home Prices in Selected Cities, Through August 2009
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via NYT [2]
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Source
Fears of a New Chill in Home Sales [1]
DAVID STREITFELD
NYT, October 27, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/business/economy/28home.html
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[1] article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/business/economy/28home.html
[2] Image: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/29/business/2009-wide-housing-graphic.html
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