Sentences with phrase «paid during the housing bubble»

But he remains short - staffed, despite raising pay to levels above what he paid during the housing bubble a decade ago.

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During the housing bubble, consumers used home equity borrowing to pay for everything from boats and gambling junkets (clearly bad) to cars and kitchen renovations (not so bad).

Now that the so - called housing bubble has burst and property values, especially for single - family homes, have readjusted, they find themselves in houses that are not worth the mortgage that was originally used to pay for them during the housing boom.

If people had known during the housing bubble how little in the way of real housing they were getting for their dollar, they would have refused to pay the prices being asked and that refusal would have brought prices back down to reasonable levels.