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The U.S. economy continued to trudge its way through these early stages of its recovery this week. A slew of data sent relatively positive signals regarding consumer spending, the housing market, and manufacturing, but the focus is squarely on tomorrow’s payrolls employment report. ISM manufacturing data indicated a marked improvement…

(SINGAPORE) The government yesterday defended its policy of managing price movements in the private housing market and also stood by its method of supplying developers with state land sites.
It was responding to Wednesday’s speech by the president of the Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore (Redas), Simon Cheong, who said that the government should allow the private property market her… more

The housing market is still in bad shape, but investors don’t seem to mind.









Real estate economics – Business – Property – Housing – Real Estate

The Federal Reserve has paid a yearlong bribe to the housing market to keep mortgage rates almost a full point below average. The $1.25 trillion payoff also known as the Mortgage Backed Security purchase program is about to end. Will the mortgage market stay bought? Honest corruption is when a…

No matter what we do or how long our day goes on for, we eventually retreat to our homes in the evening. In similar fashion, and because the housing market is at the epicenter of this Great Recession, economists find themselves constantly going back to scrutinizing housing markets. A sustainable…

The housing market is in the midst of a rocky recovery, but it’s too soon to declare the end of one of the worst slides since the Great Depression.

Business – Real estate – Residential – National Association of Realtors – Real estate economics