Sentences with phrase «damage to the housing market»

And at Labour Party Conference, he clamoured for the return of unelected regional quangos and housebuilding targets that proved so damaging to the housing market under Labour in the first place.

The damage to the housing market changed a lot of lives, and many people are renting now who used to own their homes.

As was the case with the Gulf Coast storm, the foreclosure tempest has put thousands of Americans at risk and caused serious damage to housing markets.

Not exact matches

The hundreds of pages of transcripts from eight meetings and six emergency conference calls held by the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee, show Fed officials struggling from the start of 2008 to assess the economic damage of a steep drop in housing prices and then worrying about the implications of their actions to halt the crisis.

Given the consistently good news we've seen from the housing market, it can be easy to forget just how much damage the bursting of the real estate bubble has wrought on the economy and the lives of average people across the country.

In a speech on the EU Withdrawal Bill's committee stage in the House of Lords, Baroness Humphreys highlighted the crucial role the UK played in establishing the Single Market and the damaging consequences of reverting to WTO rules.

for those people now «stuck» with their house... I'd do two things, (1) I'd get some legal help and look to determine what damage has been done to the property and seek to either force the company to buy up my land and home at the fair market value WITHOUT it being contaminated, or make up the difference on any sale that comes along (which probably won't happen now that people will know what they're getting into).

Where most of the real estate markets all over the world were seen to face instability and financial crisis, the Canadian mortgage and housing market was able to recover itself with minimal damage.

«Housing interacts very powerfully with our GDP and we could do immense damage to the broader economy by trying to cool specific markets.»

Under the legislation, real estate practitioners who, in good faith, market a property as meeting the 55 - and - over exemption of the federal Fair Housing Law will not be liable for monetary damages if the property is later determined not to quality for the older person's exemption, NAR analysts said.

It puts behind us once and for all the kind of irresponsible lending that disrupted the housing market and so badly damaged our economy, and it provides strong new consumer protections while preserving needed access to mortgage credit,» he said of the rule and its Qualified Mortgage standard.

From changes in the demand to lingering mold and water damage, the Houston area housing market will feel the effects of Harvey for years to come.

The biggest risk to a stronger labor market remains the potential for self - inflicted damage from bad policy decisions» as Congress and the White House wrestle over what to do about the fiscal cliff, he said.

NAR President William E. Brown, a second - generation Realtor ® from Alamo, California and founder of Investment Properties, believes that expiration would deal significant damage to current policy - holding property owners, as well as threaten property sales and the broader housing market.

Ryan mentions that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg may have purchased a home in California; Ryan reviews the economic events of the prior week; Ryan notes that interest rate are still heading down; Ryan notes that the DC real estate market is competitive on the buy and rent sides and that would be renters in the DC area are turning into would be buyers; Louis notes that the DC housing dynamic is different from the rest of the country where housing prices are down and there is plenty of inventory; Louis notes that if it is cheaper to buy than rent that it makes sense to get a long term low interest rate loan; Louis talks about the benefits of visiting HomeGain.com; Louis discusses the HomeGain FSBO vs. Realtor survey and the advantages of hiring a REALTOR; Louis and Ryan discuss the HomeGain home improvement survey and recount the types of home improvements that provide the best return on investment; Ryan and Louis talk about pricing strategies for selling a home; Louis and Ryan discuss the differences between pricing a short sale and pricing a non short sale home; Louis notes pricing a home too high may keep the home on the market a long time and that the more days a home is on the market makes a home look like damaged good; Ryan describes short sales as foreclosure avoidance and discusses the impact of each on FICO scores; Ryan talks about the options that people with underwater mortgages have; Louis mentions that 72 % of home buyers and sellers pick the first real estate agent they meet and points out the value in comparing agents first using HomeGain's Find a REALTOR program; Louis can Ryan discuss the level of shadow inventory the impact on sellers as more inventory gets released;