{"id":200051,"date":"2007-06-06T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/06\/the-real-estate-crash-continued\/"},"modified":"2007-06-06T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T02:39:00","slug":"the-real-estate-crash-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/06\/the-real-estate-crash-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Estate Crash, Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">Note that these are estimates, and the RE industry always has rosy predictions.<\/p>\n<p>This is going to be worse than they are stating, and then you need to add about 5% onto that for the incentives that are being used to move houses now.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2007\/06\/06\/news\/economy\/homes_outlook\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">Home price drop to be worse than expected, say Realtors &#8211; Jun. 6, 2007<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Expected drop in home prices nearly double estimate of two months ago; recovery more than year away.<br \/>By Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.com senior writer<br \/>June 6 2007: 1:01 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; The outlook for home prices this year &#8211; already expected to post the first drop on record &#8211; got worse Wednesday as an industry group cut its forecasts for sales and prices for 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The National Association of Realtors said it now sees the median price of existing homes sold falling 1.3 percent this year. That&#8217;s almost twice the 0.7 percent drop forecast just two months ago, and is worse than the 1.0 percent drop in prices it estimated in May.<\/p>\n<p>As recently as March, the group was forecasting a 1.2 percent rise in the median existing home price for this year.<br \/>Home prices: Where the growth is &#8211; and isn&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>New home prices are now expected to sink 2.3 percent, according to the group&#8217;s report, much worse than its previous forecast of essentially flat prices for the year.<\/p>\n<p>If home prices fall as is now expected, it will be the first time that&#8217;s occurred in the nearly 40 years the group has tracked home sales.<\/p>\n<p>The Realtors also now expect there to be 6.18 million existing homes sold this year, down 1.7 percent from its estimate a month ago, and down 4.6 percent from 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note that these are estimates, and the RE industry always has rosy predictions. This is going to be worse than they are stating, and then you need to add about 5% onto that for the incentives that are being used to move houses now. Home price drop to be worse than expected, say Realtors &#8211; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1261,1088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bubble","category-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}