HOUSING MARKET:: You Can’t Fix a Burst Bubble With More Hot Air – Bloomberg
By MB Snow at November 5, 2011 | 5:14 pm | Print
It’s almost six years since the air started to leak, then gush, out of the U.S. housing market, and the best one can say is that residential real estate is bouncing along the bottom.
Almost every housing indicator, from starts to sales to prices, has been flat-lining for three years. Various government initiatives, including a first-time-homebuyer tax credit, gave home sales a temporary boost in 2009 and 2010. But just as water seeks its own level, home prices are still seeking theirs.
via Baum: You Can’t Fix a Burst Bubble With More Hot Air – Bloomberg.
