Comments on: Housing Inventory Trends & Effects on Prices http://blog.altosresearch.com/housing-inventory-trends-effects-on-prices/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:49:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was | Clean Slate http://blog.altosresearch.com/housing-inventory-trends-effects-on-prices/comment-page-1/#comment-463 Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was | Clean Slate Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:10:55 +0000 http://blog.altosresearch.com/?p=460#comment-463 [...] trends trends taking place around the country offering a very telling story including its effects on pricing going into the [...] [...] trends trends taking place around the country offering a very telling story including its effects on pricing going into the [...]

]]> By: Mike Simonsen http://blog.altosresearch.com/housing-inventory-trends-effects-on-prices/comment-page-1/#comment-409 Mike Simonsen Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:54:05 +0000 http://blog.altosresearch.com/?p=460#comment-409 Gregor - those are good insights and I generally agree. The "up" market of this spring looks from our data to be a function of two years of down cycle + stimulus + tax credit + low rates. That cleared a lot of the low end. But $8k doesn't really help a $800k home purchase, so that's where the stagnation is right now. Gregor – those are good insights and I generally agree. The “up” market of this spring looks from our data to be a function of two years of down cycle + stimulus + tax credit + low rates. That cleared a lot of the low end. But $8k doesn’t really help a $800k home purchase, so that’s where the stagnation is right now.

]]> By: Gregor http://blog.altosresearch.com/housing-inventory-trends-effects-on-prices/comment-page-1/#comment-406 Gregor Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:27:16 +0000 http://blog.altosresearch.com/?p=460#comment-406 Thankyou. Perhaps at some point you could address, however, the structural shadow inventory that so often lingers after the acute phase of a housing decline moves into its chronic phase, or the malaise phase. I personally suspect that the washout at the low end has been so massive that there may be much less of this shadow inventory at that level. Where the supply below the surface of the water is likely quite built up, however, at this point is in that medium to higher end. G Thankyou. Perhaps at some point you could address, however, the structural shadow inventory that so often lingers after the acute phase of a housing decline moves into its chronic phase, or the malaise phase. I personally suspect that the washout at the low end has been so massive that there may be much less of this shadow inventory at that level. Where the supply below the surface of the water is likely quite built up, however, at this point is in that medium to higher end.

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