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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory

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To: John Vosilla who wrote (39453)8/23/2005 11:36:30 AM
From: CalculatedRisk  Read Replies (1) of 110194
 
From Bloomberg:
quote.bloomberg.com

"We are starting to see more houses coming into the market," and that is a sign of a turn, Harris said. "First you see inventories rising, then you see a flattening of prices and then you start to see people have difficulty selling houses because buyers have more options and they get more demanding."

A total of 2.75 million homes were for sale last month, the most since May 1988.

My comment: So this is the highest inventory since the previous bubble, but sales are so much higher it doesn't look bad on a "months of inventory" basis. I expect sales will fall and inventories will keep rising ...
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