Thursday, February 19, 2009

Diana Olick on the housing correction

From her CNBC blog:
As I've always said, some people can be helped, and the government can throw a lot of money at the problem, but in the end this will have to be a painful correction where many borrowers lose their homes, many more lose home equity and prices bottom when they simply become too attractive for new buyers to stay away.

2 comments:

  1. "when they simply become too attractive for new buyers to stay away."

    Which is 50% off current prices (at least in the DC area). Its going to be a while folks, as long as the powers that be wont let things correct on their own.

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  2. Please check this article about how far prices have to drop.

    http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb09/capital-trapRE02-09.html?ref=patrick.net

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