Posted: 2/28/2007 11:54:41 AM EDT
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However, sooner or later, credit will dry up and the correction will be long term. Don't think the American people are at this point yet tho. Interest rates NEED to go up tho and it won't happen because the feds are scared of what'll happen.
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100% right on.
Freddie Mac announced a tightening of requirements for subprime housing loans they'll buy. That's going to start to kill off the stupid neg-am, 0 down, interest-only, and other goofy instruments people have been using to buy houses they can't afford. When all of the subprime borrowers can no longer get those dumb loans, that'll help the housing market to correct. And when the existing subprime loans start to go bad in earnest, we should see more of a market drop... someone is holding the bag for a trillion or two in shaky home loans, and that someone is going to feel a sharp stabbing pain in the rectal area. |
I sure hope so. I've been patiently waiting in a home that is well under my income level for the housing market to correct so I can jump on a nice place in the country with some land.
Either that, or until I can save up enough down payment to buy a nice place in the country. I don't need a huge home, but I want land. And a house with land is ridiculous in most areas of the country right now, thanks (in part) to so many of the stupid lending instruments out there right now. |
We probably need a 7% discount rate to burn some of the stupidity out of the market. We may get it if the whole world stops buying our treasuries and we have to entice them back.
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