Housing Slumps. Who's Surprised?
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Welcome to the laws of supply and demand, folks.
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The National Association of Realtors likes the idea of a subprime bailout. Big surprise.
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U.S. housing starts unexpectedly  plummeted 13.1 percent last month, the biggest dive in nearly  11 years, as groundbreaking activity fell sharply across the  nation, a government report showed on Thursday.
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U.S. housing starts plunged to a   more than three-year low in August, while falling new vehicle   costs kept producer prices unexpectedly weak, government   reports showed on Tuesday, bolstering views the economy is   cooling.
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Renae Gorney sees the human side of the slumping U.S. housing market, the people whose homes are part of the $1 trillion worth of unconventional mortgages that are about to get more expensive.
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U.S. housing starts unexpectedly plummeted 13.1 percent last month, the biggest dive in nearly 11 years, as groundbreaking activity fell sharply across the nation, a government report showed on Thursday.
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U.S. housing starts fell more  sharply than expected to the lowest rate in more than three  years, while core producer prices dipped unexpectedly,  according to government reports on Tuesday that confirmed a  fast-cooling economy.
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An Associated Press analysis of new census data provides insight into the reasons for the slumping housing market: Since 1990, homeowners have faced a growing gap between their incomes and the price of their homes.
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New home sales posted an unexpected increase in September. Analysts, however, viewed the small gain as highly questionable given the severe credit crunch that rocked the housing industry this summer. They predicted further sales declines before the worst housing slump in more than two decades comes to an end.
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WASHINGTON -- Construction of new homes plunged by a bigger-than-expected amount in September, reflecting the deepening troubles in housing.
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U.S. housing starts plunged to a   more than three-year low in August, while falling new vehicle   costs kept producer prices unexpectedly weak, the government   said on Tuesday, bolstering views the economy is cooling.
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Consumer inflation dipped unexpectedly last month thanks to falling gasoline prices while new home construction hit a 12-year low as the housing slump continued to dim the outlook for growth.
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CONCERNS for the housing market grew today as influential reports from three lending bodies revealed a slump in demand for mortgage borrowing.
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New home sales posted the biggest drop on record in 2007, according to the government's latest look at the battered housing market released Monday, as a year that saw a meltdown in the mortgage market and a drop in home values ended with yet more signs of weakness.
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And so the great real estate boom has ended. Left in its wake are anxious sellers and hopeful renters, fidgety buyers and freebie-wielding developers, deserted open houses and blocks crowded with for-sale signs, scaled-back retirement plans and first-time homes that suddenly seem within reach.
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This just in from London: the U.S.  subprime mortgage market is in a tizzy.
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The slump in home prices in the Washington region is deepening and spreading, according to data compiled for The Washington Post that shows that for the first time, every local county saw a decrease in prices for a significant period of last year.