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2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
housing market into a full tailspin, according to forecasters at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure sector of the market — whether they are real estate agents, potential home buyers or real estate investors. Some highlights of the Chapman forecast: The sky isn’t falling, but housing prices are projected to decline 2.2 percent on average next year, after an almost 50 percent run-up in appreciation The cooling real estate sector will continue to plague the national economy next year, but enough positive economic fundamentals remain in place to counteract forces threatening to push the U.S.
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls for either thunderstorms or gale force hurricane winds. Home prices and sales plunge Sales of existing single-family homes declined in 40 states and in half of the nation’s biggest metropolitan areas in the last three months of 2006, according to the National Association of Realtors . At the same time, Nevada sales plunged 36 percent, while Florida posted a decline of 31 percent. Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. Fueling the latest concerns is a deluge of discouraging data in the housing
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Forecasters Change Housing Estimates for '07/'08
Likewise, housing starts are forecasted to drop from their recent high in 2006 at 1.8 Our forecast calls for housing prices to decline around 5 percent before relatively strong job growth helps to bring about a recovery by late 2008.” With the housing market languishing on the downslide, Doti expects export sales — which are forecasted to increase by almost $100 billion in both 2007 and 2008 — to replace real estate as the major driver of economic growth in this country. The nation’s housing market is not cooperating the way analysts at the A. Gary Anderson Center
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Forecasters Change Housing Estimates for '07/'08
    Likewise, housing starts are forecasted to drop from their recent high in 2006 at 1.8 Our forecast calls for housing prices to decline around 5 percent before relatively strong job growth helps to bring about a recovery by late 2008.” With the housing market languishing on the downslide, Doti expects export sales — which are forecasted to increase by almost $100 billion in both 2007 and 2008 — to replace real estate as the major driver of economic growth in this country. The nation’s housing market is not cooperating the way analysts at the A. Gary Anderson Center
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • 2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
    housing market into a full tailspin, according to forecasters at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure sector of the market — whether they are real estate agents, potential home buyers or real estate investors. Some highlights of the Chapman forecast: The sky isn’t falling, but housing prices are projected to decline 2.2 percent on average next year, after an almost 50 percent run-up in appreciation The cooling real estate sector will continue to plague the national economy next year, but enough positive economic fundamentals remain in place to counteract forces threatening to push the U.S.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
    Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls for either thunderstorms or gale force hurricane winds. Home prices and sales plunge Sales of existing single-family homes declined in 40 states and in half of the nation’s biggest metropolitan areas in the last three months of 2006, according to the National Association of Realtors . At the same time, Nevada sales plunged 36 percent, while Florida posted a decline of 31 percent. Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. Fueling the latest concerns is a deluge of discouraging data in the housing
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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