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- Housing strong on low interest rates.(Housing market)
- WASHINGTON -- Building on February's gains and recovering from a deep slide in January, the broad American housing market made another strong advance during March, with all three sectors helped by improving weather and low interest rates. Put ...
- Research articles 2004-05-03
- Existing homes, starts jump in July.(Business Today)(Illustration)
- NEW YORK -- Still riding high despite a modest uptick in interest rates, the broad U.S. housing market remained relatively strong during July as sales of existing homes rose to a record high and housing starts climbed to their highest level in 17 y ...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Snowbound recovery. (housing industry survey by the National Association of Home Builders) (1993 Buyer's Guide)
- Multifamily dwellings in Feb 1993 caused the housing market to increase 2.6%, reaching 1.2 million housing starts. However, the housing market is still slow, despite lower mortgage rates. Storms will most likely affect the housing starts during Mar 1993. Multifamily dwellings in Feb 1993 caused the housing market to increase...
- Research articles 1993-04-01
- Starts down, rest of market sturdy. (Business Today).(housing market)
- NEW YORK -- Staying the course despite a soft economy and a weak employment outlook, the broad U.S. housing market turned in a sturdy performance during April, with two of the three market segments--existing and new home sales--both making gains. NEW YORK...
- Research articles 2003-06-02
- Hold Your Applause for Housing Permits and Starts
- You could almost hear the cheer above the St. Paddy's Day roar from housing advocates, economists and builders at the news from the U.S. Census Bureau that the number of building permits rose an unexpected 3 percent last month. "Soaring," was the term of choice for some TV pundits. It's...
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
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- Carpetright profits fall 18.9 per cent on tough housing market
- Britain's biggest carpet retailer, Carpetright, announced yesterday its first-half pre-tax profits had fallen 18.9 per cent to pounds 24.9m due to a weak housing market and continiung tough conditions. However, Lord Harris, the chairman and chief executive, right, also gave a more upbeat message, saying: 'The housing market has affected...
- Research articles 2005-12-14
- Housing trends: a lively start leads to a strong year. (Market Measure 2003).
- For much of this year, the housing market seemed to be a train moving at breakneck speed. And although some analysts figure the housing train will run out of steam any time now, most agree that it is more likely to find a comfortable pace and continue...
- Research articles 2002-11-01
- Bubble may burst in housing market; the strength of the U.S. housing market has defied recession, plunging stocks and business scandals, but signs indicate that the hot market soon may cool
- Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has sounded sanguine enough in recent weeks about the long run-up in house prides, but fears are mounting that the U.S. property market may be in a price bubble that could burst if the labor market doesn't start reviving soon. Certainly few economists believe the...
- Research articles 2002-12-10
- Rate Rises 'will Balance Housing Market'
- Rising interest rates will prevent the housing market from overheating and will help create a well balanced market, a real estate group says.Ray White chairman Brian White says this month's interest rate rise by the Reserve Bank of Australia RBA and the prospect of further increases will prevent the...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Housing market remains buoyant
- THE HOUSING market got off to a brisk start in 1999 and there is asevere shortage of properties, especially in South-east England. The average property still fetches 95 per cent of the asking price and takes 11 weeks to sell, according to the latest report by Black Horse Agencies, now...
- Research articles 1999-02-25
- Mortgage Refinances to 125 Percent Loan-To-Value Ratio Start Today
- That didn't take long. The Federal Housing Finance Agency FHFA issued a quiet press release today announcing that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would now accept refinancing with 125 percent loan-to-value ratios. So if your house is worth $100,000, but you owe $125,000, and your loan is owned...
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Senate breaks housing log jam
- WASHINGTON -- Under growing pressure from voters to do something about the nation's home foreclosure crisis, top Senate leaders agreed Tuesday to at least start with a plan that can win the support of both Democrats and Republicans. The pact between Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and...
- Research articles 2008-04-02
- Bernanke and Obama Start to Relax, so It’s Time to Get Nervous
- One of the best contrarian plays is to buy stocks when the economy is recognized by the Establishment to be in a recession. By the time that the government and media acknowledge the dire truth, investors are well aware of it and have gotten their selling out of the way....
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Builder says stop selling and start helping people. (Armadillo Construction Co.)
- Home builders who really want to get into the affordable housing market and create homeownership need to quit selling and start helping people, says Robert Gutierrez, president of Armadillo Construction Co., Laredo, Texas. Gutierrez builds and sells houses priced from $47,000. But he...
- Research articles 1996-12-01
- Washington Mutual, Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator We will now begin the Q&A portion of today's call. In consideration of the number of people who have joined us on the call today, we will accommodate one question per caller. We will get to as many questions as time permits. [Operator Instructions]. ...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-18
- Moody's Corp. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. We'll go to first to Peter Appert at Goldman Sachs. Peter Appert - Goldman Sachs Thank you, hey Ray can you give us any additional color on what this restructuring charge might look like in the fourth quarter in terms...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- U.S. Launches Aid For State, Local Housing Agencies
- By David LawderWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday launched a program to help the depressed U.S. housing market by effectively allowing state and local housing finance agencies to borrow from the U.S. Treasury.The initiative, announced as new data showed a downturn in homebuilder sentiment, aims to restart a...
- News items 2009-10-19
- 5 Things That Could Kill the Housing Recovery
- The recession can't end until housing bounces back. There are many small signs of hope — and five big reasons to be cautious. ...
- Articles 2009-07-08
- Lennar Corporation F3Q08 (Qtr End 08/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Dennis McGill – Zelman & Associates Dennis McGill – Zelman & Associates You touched on this in a few different ways, can you offer your opinion on what’s positive and maybe negative about the current...
- Earnings calls 2008-09-23
- Housing Outlook Still Looks Gloomy
- For the third month in a row, single family housing starts provided a glimmer of hope so some pundits that the worst is behind us in the troubled housing sector. But the numbers are still not good enough to prove to me convincingly that housing has turned around. ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
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