A housing market in conflict: making sense of contradictory housing numbers
A housing market in conflict: making sense of contradictory housing numbers
On Monday numbers were released on U.S. existing-home sales, showing that they’ve surged about 25% from January through September of this year—good news, right? On Wednesday new-home sales figures will be released, and they’re expected to continue to drop (the Commerce Dept. already announced that new-home construction sank 10.6% in October)—bad news, right? Throw in generally stabilizing home prices mixed with an expected jump in foreclosures and we have one seriously clouded picture of the U.S. housing market. What, if anything, can we make from the numbers?
Guests:
Richard Green, director & chair of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate
- Patt Morrison for November 24, 2009
- Make war, raise taxes? Afghanistan surtax gains momentum
- Maldonado - the new man in lieutenant governor's chair?
- Prison jobs saved by stimulus money -- not really…
- Cell phone doubles as coyote: phone app helps immigrants cross the border
- A housing market in conflict: making sense of contradictory housing numbers
- A warm holiday meal
- Playing “The Card Game”
Also on this episode
Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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