Quotes About Housing Market

#1. The key to house prices is the share of foreclosure or short sales in the total housing market. When that share rises, house prices will fall, because distressed properties sell for significantly less - currently around 25 percent below non-distressed houses.

Mark Zandi

#2. Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called 'FM Policy Focus.' What we were saying was, if there was blip in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie would destabilize the greatest economy in the world.

J. C. Watts

#3. I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.

Eric Maskin

#4. Help for first time buyers and other housing market measures will be welcome.

Andy Sawford

#5. So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that.

Rush Limbaugh

#6. In 2007, in the early 2007, everybody saw the housing market was falling, and at any given moment a lot of people thought it was going to fall more, and a lot of people thought it was going to rebound. You just didn't know.

Lloyd Blankfein

#7. If you like what Wall Street did for the housing market, you'll love what Wall Street is doing for commodities, Goldman's ability to influence any portion of the price for a key component of the industrial economy is simply unacceptable.

Carl Levin

#8. There are only a few absolute truths in finances, like the fact that if you spend less than you make and have no debt, you're creating wealth. Another is that the housing market is cyclical.

Celso Cukierkorn

#9. A brick could be crushed into powder, like cocaine, and snorted to stimulate the previous highs of the housing market.

Jarod Kintz

#10. Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#11. The housing market will get worse before it gets better.

James Wilson

#12. Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.

Randy Neugebauer

#13. Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.

Mark Zandi

#14. While rising delinquencies and foreclosures will continue to weigh heavily on the housing market this year, it will not cripple the U.S.

Ben Bernanke

#15. The impact of the downturn is starting to feel very real. House prices and the housing market have been taking the knock for some time and that's affecting people.

Lucy Powell

#16. President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame.

Glenn Hubbard

#17. Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction.

Joshua A. Tucker

#18. Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world's largest financial institutions and play a crucial role in the housing market.

Alex Berenson

#19. With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.

Sarah Susanka

#20. The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that too few investors - including all of the big investment banks - bet too heavily on the housing market in the years before 2007.

James Surowiecki

#21. Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

Desiderius Erasmus

#22. The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath of the armed people.

Huey Newton

#23. Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy.

Ridley Scott

#24. When I found out I was having twins, I mean, I was in denial that I was even pregnant. So when I found out I was having twins, I kind of just laughed and was like, "Of course this would happen."

Jennifer Lopez

#25. I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

Ted Rall

#26. Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable.

Thomas Sowell

#27. I'd rather be an unknown book in the library of time, than a bestseller in the store of mankind.

Stephan Attia

#28. Home will always be here
Unseen, out of sight
Where I disappear and hide
I think dreamy things as I'm waving goodbye
So I'll spread out my wings and fly

Owl City

#29. Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market. 24 Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on the next generation.

Matthew Desmond

#30. A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.

Alan Greenspan

#31. Clary stopped wondering about peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup and started wondering what would happen if she dumped the contents of the pot on Isabelle's head.

Cassandra Clare

#32. I'll find my way back to you, Brooke Sommerfield. As sure as the sun is gonna rise in the mornin', I'll find you, I whisper into the wind. - River

Laura Miller

#33. What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities big and small, and we don't have the resources necessary to fill that gap.

Julian Castro

#34. What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

Larry Wall

#35. Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.

Vinod Khosla

#36. The glue that kept the consumer market together the last few years was the wealth effect from the housing boom.

Joel C. Rosenberg

#37. Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market - contrary to rhetoric.

Thomas Sowell

#38. As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.

Richard McCabe

#39. Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.

Jeremy Corbyn

#40. Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.

Hubert Van Zeller