Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Fixing The Housing Market

A healthy housing market requires a balance between supply and demand.  There are numerous factors like the default and foreclosure pipeline boosting supply well in excess of demand -- at current price points.  Almost all government intervention to date (save for the short-term tax credit for home purchases in the spring of 2010) has focused on suppressing supply, when it should be far easier and cheaper to focus on boosting demand.  The easiest way to get more demand from the marketplace is perhaps the simplest: remove all price supports and government interventions to allow prices to fall to a natural point where demand picks up naturally and buyers are no longer justifiably worried that future price losses will wipe away any new equity investment they make.................. Financial Advisory Services

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