Imposed rent controls usually lessen apartment availability while housing subsidies make homes more expensive.
Still, while housing sits on the bottom, its downward impetus, like much else, has dissipated.
How can one ignore housing when the rest of the economy has increased 21% while housing has dropped by 54%.
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While housing starts increased by 15% in September, many observers doubted the actual volume of sales in housing, pointing to the 1.7% sales decline that month.
The report notes that while housing prices have rebounded from crisis lows, they have recently seen renewed weakness as tax incentives are ending and foreclosures are climbing.
And while housing prices may still be low compared with the hottest areas of the country, the housing boom pushed them up considerably, according to the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.
Not necessarily so, warns Shiller, who says that while housing is normalizing, the uptrend in prices is not particularly big on a historical basis and underlying indicators of economic health are not overwhelming.
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The body claimed that while housing accounted for 27% of the UK's carbon emissions, new homes made up only 0.63% of Scotland's total annual housing stock - and had already cut emissions by 70% since 1990.
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While housing must slow down, I continue to believe that favorable demographic trends, shortages of desirable land, historically low interest rates, relatively healthy economic data, economies of scale and market share opportunities argue for much higher housing-share prices.
While housing markets continue to lag, providing one of the largest obstacles for a self-sustained economic recovery, The Home Depot, one of the largest home repair retailers, posted a 12% surge in profits despite falling sales.
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While housing construction and other building will take time to return to pre-financial-crash levels, the repair and restoration side of this industry is doing well, particularly since those who have had their buildings foreclosed upon are stripping gutters and other exposed metal for recycling.
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While the housing sector may be gaining its footing, the improvements are lagging valuations.
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The March consumer confidence reading, meanwhile, checked in at a four-month low, while the housing market continues to slump.
And while new housing in the Crescent City is reason to celebrate, rents have doubled and tripled since Hurricane Katrina.
And while overall housing starts were up in March, single-family home starts fell 5.0%, and permits for futures starts fell 3.9%.
Initial claims fell by 16, 000 to 414, 000 while new housing starts rose by 3.5% from an upwardly revised base for April.
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If nothing else, the NAHB data remind us that while the housing market is clearly recovering, the process will take time.
While the housing market has experienced an extended downturn, the apartment market boom that started in 2010 is continuing full steam ahead.
However, the number of new house completions fell by 3% last year to 15, 900, while new housing supply also fell by 2% to 16, 882 units.
While the housing market is closely tied to unemployment, the uncertainty over the economy is also being felt by those that still have the wherewithal to buy homes.
While the housing recovery will not be without its hiccups, BofA and its ilk are starting to draw some benefit from the housing market, after years of watching it wreak havoc on their operating performance and balance sheets.
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While the housing drag on growth seems to be abating, and job growth seems to have steadied (although without growing family income), both areas are doing so at levels that are unlikely to propel the economy at a much faster pace.
The stock is down 25.6% over the last 12 months and a whopping 77% over the last five years, all the while Brazilian housing prices were rising to where they are today: the fastest rising single country home market in the world.
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Larry Summers, Barack Obama's main economic adviser, has noted that current annualised vehicle sales of about 9m are well below the 14m necessary for replacement and rising population, while annualised housing starts are about a quarter of the rate needed to support the forming of new households.
Two weeks ago, real estate consulting firm Knight Frank said that China housing prices rose 9.3% in 2012, while Hong Kong housing prices rose the most out of all the 55 countries and cities in their Global House Price Index, up 23.6%.
One use is people moving to San Francisco and using Airbnb for temporary housing while looking for an apartment.
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Some of this is a result of Chinese employer home purchase plans for employees, in an effort to provide housing while limiting indebtedness.
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The phone's anti-slip finishes and materials are scratch and ding resistant, while the sealed housing design and rubber port covers resist dirt and water intrusion.
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More than 250, 000 households currently live in overcrowded social housing while a further 430, 000 households are unable to easily downsize from larger properties they no longer need.
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