What Happens When There is a Recession and Noone Comes?
- It looks like 73 out of 150 metropolitan statistical areas did not get invited to doomsday as they show increases in median existing single-family home prices from a year earlier, including 11 areas with double-digit annual gains and another 12 metros showing increases of 6 percent or more; 77 had price declines including 16 with double-digit drops.
- It is believed that the Jumbo crunch last August has significantly slowed down purchaseability in luxury & higher priced areas of the Country.
NAR President Richard Gaylord says ,“Higher limits for FHA loans, which go into effect March 14, will be a big help to first-time buyers in high-cost markets. Higher limits for conventional loans purchased by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae will take a bit longer – when they become available, high-income, creditworthy borrowers in high-cost areas will have access to affordable and safer financing, and that will help unleash pent-up demand,” he says.
- The 4th Quarter saw the Cumberland area of Maryland and West Virginia rise 19% over a year ago. Nakima, Washington rose 18.0 % from the 4th quarter of 2006.

While reading a well written analysis of the "real estate bubble", I could not help but think of the current housing recession metaphorically. 
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