If anyone was in a position to understand the consequences of a sharp drop in housing prices, it was the Fed.
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A. Gary Shilling says it will take another 20% drop in housing prices to bring them in line with their historical trend.
China simply can't afford a sharp drop in housing prices because it will affect investment, which will in turn damp economic growth, Mr. Ren says.
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So they were hit -- you were hit with a historic drop in housing prices which caused the value of the homes in their neighborhood to plummet.
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Finally, look for an anticipated drop in social housing expenditure to affect adversely U.K. home builders such as Bovis and Taylor Wimpey.
So, we decided to bury our heads and listen to fallacious arguments that it is a temporary drop in the housing market and everything will be ok when the market steadies.
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The drop in confidence over jobs and the troubled housing markets in the U.S. have highlighted the factors for the stagnant economy since 2008.
Once prices do drop a little more, the demand for housing will start to catch up with supply, and maybe that will bring a more normal housing market next year.
The biggest drop in work was in public sector non-housing projects.
Nevertheless, a survey of 100 economists painted a bleak picture of housing, as they expected prices to drop 2.5% this year, and then only rise 1.1% through 2015.
In stress test results released last Thursday, Citigroup and Fifth Third Bancorp were projected by the Fed to have Tier 1 common equity ratios in excess of 8.0% in a stressed economic scenario of a deep recession, 12%-plus unemployment, a 20% slump in housing prices, and a 52% drop in U.S. stock markets.
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Paul, Minnesota, officials last year in getting them to drop the city's pending Supreme Court appeal over public housing conditions.
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In April 2007, we issued a report headlined The Second Wave of the Housing Tsunami: 2007-2011 in which we suggested commercial real estate was likely to be the second shoe to drop in what was already an unnerving collapse in the residential housing market.
The housing crash, banking crisis and recession caused a sharp drop in the velocity of money.
Vacancies drop when the number of households grows faster than the number of housing units.
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According to Housing Landscape 2013, a study published by the National Housing Conference and Center for Housing Policy, in the three years before 2011, working renters saw their housing costs rise by 6%, while homeowners saw them drop by 3%.
Even more than a drop in construction, however, economists have worried about the effects of falling housing prices on consumer spending.
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U.S. housing starts during July ran at a 604, 000 pace, which is admittedly 4, 000 above forecast, but represents a 1.5% drop from a downwardly revised June reading of 613, 000 when optimists claimed the housing recovery might be underway.
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During the housing crisis, many people asserted that commercial real estate was the other shoe waiting to drop.
Housing permits, which project future building, fell by 7.8%, the largest drop this decade.
But no, in the interest of full transparency, we had Bernanke warning about how the Fed expected still more negative pressure ahead from the housing collapse, worsening labor markets, a credit crunch that may have still more shoes to drop, and revealing that the Fed was also beginning to worry about the potential for rising inflation.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the recovery of the U.S. housing market is an important driver of pickup sales, with builders and contractors, punished by the drop in new-home building caused by the economic crash of 2008, meeting a pent-up demand to replace old vehicles.
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For example, a drop in Treasury yields would lower borrowing costs for consumers and businesses, helping to stimulate consumption, business investment and housing.
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