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Total real estate whores. That's it, get that nose right up Yun's arse.


Here is a Realty Times video from December 31, 2007:

Real Estate Outlook: Will Housing Turn Around?
Two of the nation's most prominent real estate economists weighed in this subject recently and their end of the year forecasts aren't too far apart from one another.

Dr. David Seiders, chief economist of the National Association of Home Builders, had this to say: Our "housing forecast shows systematic improvements in home sales by the second quarter of 2008, improvement in home starts by the third quarter, maintenance of low levels of manufactured housing shipments throughout 2008, and modest declines in the real value of residential remodeling next year."

Now here's the outlook from Dr. Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors: "The broad trend over the coming year will be gradual rise in existing home sales, but because sales are exceptionally low for the final months of 2007, total sales for 2008 will only be modestly higher than for 2007."

Dr. Yun added that the key positive change underway has been that the "unusual mortgage disruptions that peaked in August were finalized in September and October," and now the trendline in pending home sales is up.

We'll check back and monitor the accuracy of both forecasts as the new year develops.
But let's be frank: After such a run of down and bad numbers through most of 2006 and 2007, will it really be a big surprise if housing demand and sales and new construction finally begin showing signs of recovery -- even modest recovery -- in the year ahead? (Yes, it will be a huge surprise, moron!)

We at Realty Times think it's a very good bet. (BWAHAHAHA)