Falling home prices and a weak housing market are one more element of deflation.
That's the case in Southern California, where military families are beginning to take advantage of falling home prices.
It was the first quarterly profit for the company in 2011 after a year of falling home deliveries.
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Falling home prices reflects the market extracting capital so to channel it into what consumers now want more.
Mortgage borrowing is down significantly, the consequence of foreclosures, falling home values, tighter lending standards and weak home sales.
He says people are being squeezed in several ways, given the state of the economy and falling home prices.
GSEs were responsible for 10% of existing home sales in the first quarter and continue to put pressure on already falling home prices.
He says Congress still needs to tackle other challenges, such as falling home values, rising unemployment, and a deep dependence on imported oil.
But JP Morgan economist Robert Mellman says cheaper gas should help to offset some of the drag on the economy from falling home sales.
Between falling home prices, high unemployment rates and the millions of foreclosures underway, Americans not so surprisingly stopped making improvements on their owner-occupied properties post-2007.
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We know that fixing that crisis, breaking that cycle of falling home values and rising foreclosures, is one of the keys to fixing our economy.
The global economic downturn, the sub-prime mortgage crisis, investment bank failures, falling home prices, and tight credit pushed the United States into a recession by mid-2008.
This is reminiscent of the housing bubble and crash where home-equity borrowing soared only to later see homeowners saddled with debt and crushed by falling home prices.
What this plan will do is help millions of responsible homeowners who make their payments on time but find themselves trapped under falling home values or wrapped up in red tape.
We must stem the spread of foreclosures and falling home values for all Americans and do everything we can to help responsible homeowners stay in their homes, something I will talk more about tomorrow.
"Falling home prices, rising food and energy costs, which will inevitably lead to slower consumer spending, are reducing expectations for corporate profitability, pushing up defaults and widening out spreads, " Hintz wrote in a research note Tuesday.
Falling home and recreation prices last year were largely offset by price spikes for cars and trucks (including a 9.2% increase in the price of used vehicles) and health care, which saw a 3.4% increase in 2009.
While the number was slightly below consensus expectations of 205, 000, the combination of falling job cuts and rising private employment is encouraging in a time of falling home prices and continued global shocks, from Libya to Japan.
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The club has also been facing falling home attendances, with a season low of 2, 833 turning up to watch the side's 3-2 defeat by Brentford in March, while just 4, 225 people attended the side's last home game at Boundary Park, which Oldham drew 2-2 with Southend.
The unemployment rate in the Valley is falling, home prices have stabilized, and Apple products are so hot that they can't keep their store shelves stocked.
Manufacturing fell sharply in April, home prices are falling and new-home sales plunged in March.
Mr. Najib's falling popularity at home suggests his days as Prime Minister could be numbered.
They will probably need their Brazilian operations to make up for falling profits at home.
Watson died at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, where he was admitted recently after falling at his home.
"The economy still faces powerful contractionary forces in the shape of widespread recession abroad, and at home falling house prices and stock markets, blunted monetary policy as banks constrain lending and rock-bottom business and consumer confidence, " says Andrew Smith, chief economist at KPMG.
He has returned home after falling asleep at the wheel of his car.
Good news for new China home buyers, prices in 48 large to mid-sized cities saw home prices falling yet again.
So, for many of you, even as you found your paychecks shrinking, even as after the crisis you found the value of your biggest asset, your home, falling, the cost of everything else has gone up: the cost of groceries, the cost of sending your kids to college, costs of retirement.
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You think about how home prices are falling nationwide at a rate of 10 percent a year.
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