Those bullish on housing have continually called blogs such as Housing Panic, Housing Doom, Patrick.net and others chicken littles. Their shallow reasoning went something along these lines: "The median housing price is up, meaning that home values continue to increase. Ergo, the blogs calling the market a declining one are insane."
If you fell for that poorly reasoned argument in the first place I feel sorry for you; but at last, that remaining mirage of hope for the poor folks at the NAR and other disillusioned cheerleaders has evaporated. The New York Times reports that the median home price is expected to drop for the first time since 1950. Try to spin that one Lawrence Yun.
From the Times:
The median price of American homes is expected to fall this year fo
Read...Related Headlines
- National City Warehouse Stops Approving Non-Agency Loansposted 248 weeks ago on Blown Mortgage
- Countrywide?s Mozilo sees recession as likelyposted 248 weeks ago on Blown Mortgage
- IndyMac wades back in to the jumbo marketposted 248 weeks ago on Blown Mortgage
- What?s going on with the jumbo loan market?posted 248 weeks ago on Blown Mortgage
- GMAC Suspends Stand Alone 2nd Loansposted 220 weeks ago on Blown Mortgage
- Off for a few daysposted 205 weeks ago on Blown Mortgage
- MortgageIT Discontinues Subprime Lendingposted 247 weeks ago on Blown Mortgage
- Stimulus Package, New Loan Limits and a Controversial California Lawposted 226 weeks ago on Blown Mortgage
- Mortgage Market Minute 2/29/08posted 221 weeks ago on Blown Mortgage
- Okay, this is just wrong?.posted 232 weeks ago on Blown Mortgage