Sentences with phrase «estate economists told»

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In early 2004, as American house prices roared higher and there came dire warnings from some quarters about the existence of a bubble — accompanied, of course, by strident denials from banks, most economists and the mortgage and real estate industries — Ben Bernanke (then still a governor before he became Fed chairman) addressed the problem of what to tell the American people.

The crux of the problem, Richard Mattoon, a senior economist at the Chicago Fed and a lecturer on real estate at Northwestern University told Canadian Business, is that dividends and capital gains make up a much larger share of top earners» pay than they did in the past — and that part of their compensation package tends to be very volatile.

The CIBC economist was one of a number of people who trotted out from the bushes to tell the nation why it would be a bad idea for the government to stop sanctioning 95 % leverage in the real estate biz.

«We've been going around to our offices explaining the current economic situation and telling associates that they must have confidence that things will work out,» explains the CEO of the 450 - sales associate Star Real Estate in Fountain Valley, Calif. «We're also having the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ®» chief economist, Leslie Appleton - Young, speak to our associates in December to explain today's market and what 2009 will bring.

«The crash is over,» Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Analytics Inc., told Bloomberg about the real estate market.

Cameron Muir, chief economist for the B.C. Real Estate Association, meanwhile told The Vancouver Observer on June 5 that linking immigration to property prices «is beginning to sound suspiciously awkward.»