Monday, May 16, 2011

Eclipsing a terrible milestone as home prices fall harder than the 1928 through 1933

Further educate yourself on our current financial and housing climate and situation. 

Multiple sets of indicators are clearly showing that the housing market is entering a second winter.  Home prices are inching closer to cycle lows and indicators of housing distress are rampant throughout the country.  Home prices during the troubling five years of 1928 through 1933 saw a decline of 25.9 percent nationwide and this was during the Great Depression.  The latest Case-Shiller data shows that home prices in the 20 City and 10 City composite measures are down by 32 percent from their 2006 peak.  This is now nominally the worst housing correction since the Great Depression.  The continuing correction in housing is economically challenging middle class households in ways vastly different from those during the Great Depression.  What is troubling about the new cycle lows is that the liquidity injected into the banking system by the Federal Reserve simply delayed the inevitable while diverting precious resources to a broken financial system.  The painful lesson of the new reality is that household income, the gas in the engine, is simply too low to support prices even at today’s new lower levels.

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http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/eclipsing-terrible-milestone-home-prices-fall-harder-1928-through-1933-great-depression-finance-collapse-lessons-from-the-great-depression/

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