Brokers and Builders Offer Warning on Housing Market
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A real estate group issued a pessimistic outlook and two major builders said their profits will not meet expectations.
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Home buyers and owners were warned yesterday by two separate surveys of the property market that house prices were continuing to fall.
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US banking regulators yesterday urged mortgage servicers to be proactive and contact borrowers at risk of default to help them avoid foreclosure and keep their homes.
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The market's turmoil may be especially unsettling for middle-aged homeowners.
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Slowing real estate sales coupled with the subprime mortgage mess are two of the reasons some people say a recession is nigh.
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Even the rosiest forecasts for next year&#39;s real estate market caution that higher interest rates nationally could shrink the pool of potential home buyers.
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Mortgage lenders have hit back at accusations that they are responsible for the rapid rise in house prices.
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Some Federal Reserve policymakers worried last month that inflation dangers were growing and that low interest rates might be encouraging excessively risky investments, including speculative home buying.
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House prices in the UK are heading for a crash, warn the world&#39;s money men. Soft landing, please, say Britain&#39;s estate agents.
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By Malcolm Moore, Economics Correspondent (Filed: 26/11/2004). Increasing numbers of homeowners are renegotiating their mortgages to take advantage of the slowing property market, the British Bankers Association said yesterday.
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A Bank of England rate-setter warns that a downward spiral of falling house prices threatens the economy.
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U.S. housing industry economists on Monday cautioned that rapid house price gains in some areas of the country may not be sustainable.
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The threat of higher interest rates is putting off some potential first-time home-buyers, a survey suggests.
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The turmoil tearing through the residential mortgage market will probably harm everyday investors.
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At a Senate Banking Committee hearing yesterday, legislators and consumer advocates prodded federal banking regulators to move more quickly to put restrictions on non-traditional mortgage lending, because, they said, the new kinds of mortgages may place borrowers and lenders at financial risk.
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Growing numbers of people are being squeezed out of the housing market, researchers have concluded.
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Two Federal Reserve officials said today that problems in housing and mortgage lending have begun to threaten the overall economy.