Home Sales Up, Prices are DOWN
The rebounding of the housing market can be interpreted in many ways with recent home sales going up, many saw that it was the end of the housing market slump. That was till figures for home process showed that in spite of the rise in sales, the prices of those homes being sold are dropping, in some instances up to 17% of their true values. These sort of figures have never been seen in history with home process that are so low in certain areas, it’s cheaper to buy existing homes than to build them.
The fluctuations continue as the housing market gets the boost it needs from the government in terms of funding for prospective home buyers who might want to purchase a new home or their first home. Financing assistanc is being extended by the government as part of the trillion dollar economic stimulus bill to get people to spend money, in effect fueling it’s own rebound.