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Bovis Warns on Profits as housing market Slumps: By Erica Billingham LONDON (Reuters UK) - Bovis Homes (BVS) became the latest housebuilder to issue a profit warning on Tuesday, adding to signs of a sharpening slowdown in the housing market and hammering its shares. The country's fifth-biggest housebuilder by market value said the...; Tags: HBOS Plc., Housing Market, Bovis, Mortgages, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales; News items 2008-05-06
Web Site Rightmove Says Trading Strongly: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Property Web site operator Rightmove (RMV) shrugged off the gloom surrounding the housing market on Tuesday, saying it was gaining market share and confident of meeting analysts' full-year expectations. "Rightmove has continued to trade strongly since the start of the year,...; Tags: Web, Housing Market, Web Site, Web Site Rightmove, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Oukbs; News items 2008-05-06
HSBC Says Q1 Profit Up, Bad Debts Jump: LONDON (Reuters) - Europe's biggest bank HSBC Holdings (HSBA) said its profit in the first quarter was ahead of a year ago as growth in Asia helped counter over $5 billion in hits from bad debts on U.S. home loans and asset writedowns....; Tags: Corporate law, Financial services, corporate governance, Financial Times, asset management, bank, strategy, profit warning, London, Europe, emerging market, director, Thomson Reuters Corp., shareholder, performance; News items 2008-05-12
Persimmon Says House Market Worsens: By Dan Lalor LONDON (Reuters UK) - The housing market has deteriorated rapidly in recent weeks since a key survey found house prices fell 2.5 percent in March, as buyers struggle to get mortgages, housebuilder Persimmon (PSN) said on Thursday. The biggest housebuilder by market value...; Tags: Housing Market, Mortgage Company, Persimmon, Mortgages, Government, Sales Strategy, Sales; News items 2008-04-24
Pound Hits Record Low Vs Euro: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Sterling hit a record low against the euro on Tuesday, dragged lower after a fall in a key house price index to a 30-year low suggested that the downturn in Britain's housing market is quickening. The pound was also stung by a...; Tags: Housing Market, Bank Of England, Consumer Price, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales, Foreign-exchange; News items 2008-04-15

April Home Builder Index Lingers Near Low: NAHB: By Lynn Adler NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. home builder sentiment hovered near all-time lows in April, with early spring shopping not yet boosting sales of new homes, the National Association of Home Builders said on Tuesday. The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market index...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, National Association of Home Builders, housing market, economist, sales, tax, U.S. Senate, consumer confidence, Thomson Reuters Corp., financial market, New York, survey, benefit, financial; News items 2008-04-15
Relocating Employees in a Tough housing market: Relocating Employees in a Tough Housing MarketTe: Housing MarketGreat insight on :http://insurancefraudnews.blogspot.comRE: Relocating Employees in a Tough Housing Markethttp://insurancefraudnews.blogspot.com; Tags: housing market; Discussion threads 2008-03-23
housing market Slowdown Not Major Influence On Houston Retail Market: While the sub-prime mortgage fallout has impacted some retailers such as Home Depot, Lowe's and Sears, overall, the Houston retail real estate market continues to grow and expand. Area-wide, occupancy in the Houston area is down, and as a result, rental rates for retail space is also down. But with...; Tags: Houston, housing market, real estate; White papers 2007-08-15
The Houston Retail Market Update: The housing market's recent slowdown has had a ripple effect that can be felt across all markets, and retail is no exception. Many retailers such as Lowe's, Home Depot, and Sears have especially been hit. The nation's number one home improvement retailer, Home Depot, recently reported that it expects earnings...; Tags: Retail, Financial accounting, Sears Roebuck & Co., Home Depot Inc., retail company, housing market, earnings per share; White papers 2007-08-14
Dallas/Ft. Worth Multifamily housing market: While homeowners lose their homes to foreclosure at the highest rate in recent history, the multifamily housing market is reaping the benefits. In particular, Class B and C properties are seeing higher occupancy levels in the past two quarters in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex. Dallas/Fort Worth area apartment second-quarter occupancy...; Tags: housing market, C, benefit; White papers 2007-08-02
Houston Multifamily housing market: In the Houston area, the apartment market saw impressive growth in occupancy due to the increase in foreclosures as a result of the sub-prime lending fallout. The foreclosures forced many homeowners to relocate back to multifamily housing. In particular, Classes A and C properties saw the greatest increase in occupancy...; Tags: Houston, apartment, housing market, C; White papers 2007-08-02
Relocating Employees in a Tough housing market: One little remarked upon reality of this summer's housing meltdown: it alters the landscape for employment related relocations. With the real estate market in a slump, don't be surprised if your employees are reluctant to sell their homes and move. A survey out from Worldwide ERC found that: More...; Tags: Jessica Stillman, real estate, real estate market, housing market, Money Magazine; Blog posts 2007-09-24
Creative Advertising?: Heck No, It's False Advertising: Being a professional mortgage lender and broker, the author likes to believe that most people in the business are honest, reliable and knowledgeable. While this is true to a large extent, the relatively few bad guys in this business make everyone look bad. The housing market has cooled and interest...; Tags: housing market, interest rate, marketing; White papers 2006-06-22
Home Appraisal: Housing Cycle Should Continue to Fuel Consumer Spending: The strength of the housing market and the rapid rise in house prices have led many to conclude that housing is a bubble now ready to burst. But the housing market is lifted by numerous factors that suggest that the cycle could last longer than many think. Despite record mortgage...; Tags: Alliance Capital Management, housing market, appraisal, interest rate, financial; White papers 2005-07-01
Oakwood Improves Sales Focus and Efficiency in Increasingly Complex Corporate housing market: Oakwood Worldwide is a leader in the corporate housing market. With $1.6 billion in properties representing more than 30,000 residential units, the company handles 75,000 move-ins annually. Working with an outdated legacy customer contact system, Oakwood was having trouble staying ahead of changes in its marketplace. The company selected a...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, housing market, Siebel Systems Inc., sales, CRM, leader, benefit; Case studies 2005-02-01
housing market Dynamics: On the Contribution of Income Shocks and Credit Constraints: This paper proposes a life-cycle model of the housing market with a property ladder and a credit constraint. It focuses on equilibria, which replicates the facts that credit constraints delay some households' first home purchase and force other households to buy a home smaller than they would like. The model...; Tags: University of Wisconsin, housing market, income; White papers 2004-12-01
Leaving Gateway Metropolitan Areas: Immigrants and the housing market: The empirical approach in this paper is to estimate models of housing tenure choice on a sample of recent movers. Immigration has long been a force that shapes the housing and labor markets in gateway metropolitan areas. This study focuses on the housing outcomes of households who currently live in...; Tags: University of Southern California, housing market; White papers 2004-08-29
Moving Employees to Hot housing markets Is a Tough Sell: It's a pricey proposition to move employees to expensive housing markets like New York and San Francisco. But companies are finding ways to drive down those high costs, from selling employees' homes more quickly to fine-tuning perilous cost-of-living adjustments. Convincing employees to move to high-cost areas almost always means paying...; Tags: Crain Communications Inc., housing market, adjustment; White papers 2003-11-01
The Long-Run Relationship Between House Prices and Income: Evidence From Local housing markets: Many in the housing literature argue that house prices and income are cointegrated. This paper shows that the data do not support this view. Standard tests using 27 years of national-level data do not find evidence of cointegration. However, it is known that tests for cointegration have low power, especially...; Tags: Operational accounting, Federal Reserve Board, income, housing market; White papers 2003-04-01
State Enterprise Zones And Local housing markets: In the past two decades, more than 40 states have implemented enterprise zone programs to encourage business activity and revitalize distressed communities. Previous evaluations (predominantly at the zone or state level) on the impact of these programs have been inconclusive. Property values are an ideal outcome measure, since any wealth...; Tags: Fannie Mae, housing market, designation; White papers 2003-01-01