Sunday, September 16, 2007

Silly things.

There are blogs that blame the National Association of Realtors for the run-up in house prices, saying that without their cheer leading of the housing market, prices never would have risen so much. I give people more credit than that--most people can guess that Realtors like houses as much as Steve Jobs likes ipods.

On the other hand, NAR is saying it's the media's fault that the housing market is so lousy now. The media have little to do with it--the housing market is bad because there is excess supply and because credit outside of the conforming prime loan market has gotten relatively expensive. Until inventories begin to fall, it won't matter what either the media or NAR say.

2 comments:

Dick in Wisconsin said...

Excellent point. Its all about supply and demand.

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