November 06, 2005

The floor is yours - housing panic calls for its historic first comments

Dear readers - now is your chance. Welcome to the blog, and now let's hear from you.

Here's some ?'s for starters:

1) What % decline do you forsee in the US housing market over the next two years? (My guess: 30%)

2) Rate these in order of patheticness: * Realtors * Mortgage Lenders * Speculators * George Bush * Alan Greenspan

3) Question of the Day: Has the housing bubble already popped (nowhere but down?)

Enjoy!

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

1) What % decline do you forsee in the US housing market over the next two years? (My guess: 30%)

30% increase

2) Rate these in order of patheticness: * Realtors * Mortgage Lenders * Speculators * George Bush * Alan Greenspan

None of these are pathetic.

3) Question of the Day: Has the housing bubble already popped (nowhere but down?)

What housing bubble? There's no bubble.

Anonymous said...

oh, man, that's rich! must be a realtor. Best of luck though (you'll need it!)

Anonymous said...

1) 50% decline (gets us back to trendline)

2) bush, alan, realtors, lenders, speculators (wish I had speculated more - then got out)

3) pop.

Anonymous said...

A friend of mine in the real estate investment biz (buys and sells condos) told me this morning that he's selling everything he can - URGENTLY

It's scary out there for the pros. Even a guy like Trump is likely canceling whatever he can and selling quietly

Wes D said...

1) What % decline do you forsee in the US housing market over the next two years? (My guess: 30%)

30% decrease nationwide: 50% in California, Boston, and Florida

2) Rate these in order of patheticness: * Realtors * Mortgage Lenders * Speculators * George Bush * Alan Greenspan

Speculators, Realtors, Mortgage leanders. The other two deserve too much respect to be called pathetic, even though I may not agree with all Greenspan's policies.

3) Question of the Day: Has the housing bubble already popped (nowhere but down?)

Absolutely. We may see some pockets of growth, but even the Titanic bobbed a few times before eventually sinking.

blogger said...

I disagree with the last poster - pathetic and incompetent are actually nicer words to describe bush and greenie. But then again, time will tell, and history will not be kind

Anonymous said...

40 to 50 percent overvalued by price to earnings ratios to rent comparable properties.
Don't listen to me. Sell at the same time as everyone else just like everyone buys together.
Europe raising interest rates to strengthen against the dollar. What will we do next to counteract their move???? 8%+ in 2006 9% 2007

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