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The US housing market matters to almost everyone – even people who do not want a property in the country. Stabilising house prices could help to draw a line under the troubled assets on banks’ balance sheets, and hence under the financial crisis. In the latest welter of housing data, some have ...
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... The real source of the current credit crunch is not a collapse in bank loans, but the implosion of the shadow banking world. John Authers’ Short view: Green shoots in housing The US housing market matters to almost everyone - even people who do not want a property in the country. Stabilising house prices could help to draw a line under the troubled assets on banks’ balance sheets, and hence under the financial crisis. ...
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... Source: CNBC, April 20, 2009.
John Authers (Financial Times): Green shoots in housing
“The recent partly artificial slowdown in foreclosures, as banks awaited details of Obama administration’s plan to deal with the problem, may explain the ‘green shoots’ that have appeared is US housing data.”
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US housing market remains under stress, data show
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... of transactions in the first quarter and weighed down median home prices in most markets. The national median existing single-family price was $169,000, which is 13.8 percent below the first quarter of 2008 when conditions were closer to normal. The median is where half sold for more and half sold for less, but distressed homes typically are selling for 20 percent less than traditional homes and are downwardly skewing median prices. Related links: US housing woes not over - FT Green shots in US housing - Short View / FT
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