A Downhill Ride; Slumping Prices Give a Big Boost to Sales January 23,2009

Submitted by lusk-admin on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 16:56

... Richard Green, director of the University of Southern California's Lusk Center for Real Estate, said the market is being hammered by tight credit, expectations of further price declines and job losses.

"If you see the unemployment rate turn around, that's when you'll start to see housing prices bottom and start turning in the other direction," Green said. "Until that happens, I'm pretty gloomy."...