House poor: tighter lending standards, a huge unsold home inventory, declining prices and buyer psychology are all working against the housing market in 2008. So much for the wealth effect.(Cover Report: Business Outlook)

Mortgage Banking | January 1, 2008| | Copyright

Musician and songwriter Leon Redbone once opined that "the blues ain't nothin' but a good man feeling bad," and nowadays it seems as though the entire country--not to mention global investors in such faraway places as Germany and Norway--is singing the blues over a highly depressed housing market. Brought about largely by the thunderous collapse of the subprime mortgage market in the United States, housing prices in some locales are in a freefall--and sales of new and existing houses are plummeting right along with them. [??] The years 2005 and 2006 were the best of times for ...

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