Riskiest U.S. Housing Markets
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Lending conditions, borrowers' habits and regional economics make these areas more vulnerable to market downturns than others.
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Business & money: Jitters in world financial markets over US housing market send pound to $2.06 against the dollar.
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Investors looking for safety from declines in the mortgage and corporate bond markets may find it in the path of a hurricane.
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The US housing downturn may damage investment funds linked to sub-prime lending, experts say.
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Playing the U.S. housing market may no longer require actually buying a home.
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Foreclosures were once the turf of the most aggressive investors, but these days ordinary home buyers can hunt for fire-sale house prices on a wealth of Internet sites.
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WASHINGTON : The United States is &quot;most unlikely&quot; to suffer a housing bubble despite an extraordinary rise in prices, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan revealed.
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In real estate, it&#39;s location, location, location. With markets, it&#39;s timing, timing, timing. Asian central banks should consider this most basic of credos and sell some of their massive holdings in US Treasuries.
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The slump in the housing market has no quick fix  -  and it could expand into a full-blown recession
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If you can't depend on your home equity increasing during a US housing downturn, where do you turn for growth?
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It seemed almost a sure bet. In the past seven years, stock prices of publicly traded commercial real estate companies had soared more than 160 percent, far outpacing the broader market. Then, early this year, the shares stumbled, falling about 14 percent since early February. "This drop is a big...
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Financial market turbulence has noticeably hurt housing activity across the U.S. in recent weeks but other sectors of the economy have so far been spared, the Fed said.
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Is the housing slump really that bad? After all, the S&amp;P 500 last week fell more in a single day (3.5 percent) than home prices have fallen in the past year nationally (3.1 percent).
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The spring real estate market was a washout. Home sales in Massachusetts tumbled as much as 8 percent in June, and prices also dropped during that key month in the real estate cycle, according to two reports yesterday, virtually ensuring that 2007 is going to be another down year in the industry.
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Financial market turbulence leading to tighter mortgage lending standards noticeably hurt housing activity in most Federal Reserve districts in recent weeks, adding uncertainty about the recovery of the downtrodden housing sector, the Fed said on Wednesday.
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The housing market, in its deepest rut since the early 1990s, is likely to get worse in the near term, economists said.
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Homes priced out of buyers' reach and unsold inventory could derail analysts' predictions that the market is near its bottom.