Majority Want to Buy Real Estate
April 8th, 2008 by eCommissionAfter a slow down of nearly two years, the real estate market is getting widespread support from consumers in a new Housing Predictor survey, which found 3 out of 4 consumers want to buy real estate in at least the next two years.
Destin, FL (PRWEB) April 8, 2008 — Following more than two years in a real estate slump, a large majority of consumers surveyed say they want to buy real estate within the next two years, according to a new Housing Predictor poll.
Three out of four respondents to the online survey said they will be in the market to buy property in the coming two years. Some even want to make their purchases sooner. Congress is working on a plan to aid some victims of foreclosure, which are already at record levels. But the proposals lack the ingredients to help more than a third of those that are facing the possibility of foreclosure. Housing Predictor forecasts foreclosures will top 5.6 million units through 2011.
The real estate crisis has developed into the worst financial crisis for the nation since the Great Depression, which Housing Predictor analysts forecast last year. It has sent shock waves through the Wall Street community and other financial markets, sending the nation’s economy on a downward cycle.
Many consumers are willing to take the leap back into the market in even shorter time frames. Find the break down on the survey’s entire results on Housing Predictor. Visitors are regularly surveyed on a variety of real estate issues. Housing Predictor forecasts more than 250 local housing market futures in all 50 U.S. states.
Demand on the part of prospective real estate buyers has increased as a result of slumping home sales, lower prices and the Federal Reserve’s series of interest rate cuts. The over-whelming majority of housing markets in the nation are forecast to deflate in 2008.
Housing Predictor online surveys are some of the most heavily monitored studies in the real estate industry, and the results are published in hundreds of newspapers and by many online news organizations.
All time record numbers of foreclosures are at least leading in part to the nation’s thirst for investing in real estate. More than two million homes have already been foreclosed as a result of the real estate crisis, and higher adjustable rate mortgages many home owners have been unable to afford. Foreclosures are increasing and are forecast to worsen over the next three years unless widespread Federal intervention occurs.
Critics blame the White House and Congressional lawmakers at least partially for the nation’s economic woes in their slow response to the crisis. A series of new creative financing products offered by lenders and easy to obtain subprime mortgages for many home buyers, who would not have other wise qualified for mortgages are also at fault.
Get the full details of the survey, check your market forecast and search foreclosures at www.housingpredictor.com.
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:12 pm
I see a lot of blame for high foreclosure rates, due to a lot of high expectations for borrowers to be honest. I mean lenders want to make a quick buck here and there, but they are in the business of doing that. However, a home owner has the responsibility of taking care of the home forever. So we expect people to take a sense of pride and do so. I’ve gone into areas with foreclosures and found the still occupied homes with the worst looking yards. Their own presence is driving down values and creating an upside down environment.
We can point fingers, but what solution is that. How do you MAKE home owners not walk away from their responsibilities?
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