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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-10 10:21 AM
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S&P predicts more home price declines through 2011

S&P predicts more home price declines through 2011
by JON PRIOR
Monday, November 15th, 2010, 1:55 pm

Standard & Poor's analysts believe home prices will drop between 7% and 10% through 2011, erasing any improvements prices have recently made.

Home sales, which plummeted after the homebuyer tax credit expired in April have continued to lag. Pending home sales, which preclude existing home sale data, dipped 1.8% in September before the market goes into a winter many expect to be bleaker than usual. With this lack of demand, inventories should grow, according to S&P, while prices drop.

"Low mortgage rates will likely continue to encourage refinancing, but their influence on home buying activities has been limited due to the weak housing market and a lack of demand," S&P credit analyst Erkan Erturk said.

According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, prices did increase 1.7% from a year ago in the 20-city index and 2.6% in the 10-city index. But in August alone, those indices fell 0.2% and 0.1% respectively. Home prices declined in 15 of the 20 metro areas. Fiserv, a financial services technology provider, said Monday in its analysis that home prices would drop another 7% before stabilizing at the end of 2011.

http://www.housingwire.com/2010/11/15/sp-predicts-more-home-price-declines-through-2011


Question... "Fiserv, a financial services technology provider, said Monday in its analysis that home prices would drop another 7% before stabilizing at the end of 2011." I wonder if "the end of 2011" is the first date Fiserv has ever predicted a stabilization of the housing market. In my experience, forecasters are big goal-post movers, saying again and again. "Next quarter terrible but stabilizing after that."

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Nye Bevan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-10 10:25 AM
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1. Good. Houses are still too expensive.
The bias in the article shows when it refers to rising prices as "improvements". Increased home prices are not "improvements" for people who are currently priced out of the market.
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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-10 11:51 AM
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2. self kicks are okay for low-controversy informational posts, IMO
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