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Help for first time buyers and other housing market measures will be welcome. -- Andy Sawford
Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing. -- Mark Zandi
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
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
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
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
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
Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy. -- Mark Zandi
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
The housing market will get worse before it gets better. -- James Wilson
Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction. -- Joshua A. Tucker
I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one. -- Eric Maskin
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
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
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
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
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
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
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it, politicians have now moved on into micro-managing automobile companies and medical care. They are not going to stop unless they get stopped. And that is not going to happen until the voters recognize the fact that political rhetoric is no substitute for competence. -- Thomas Sowell
The glue that kept the consumer market together the last few years was the wealth effect from the housing boom. -- Joel C. Rosenberg
A brick could be crushed into powder, like cocaine, and snorted to stimulate the previous highs of the housing market." -- Jarod Kintz
Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market. -- Vinod Khosla
Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable. -- Thomas Sowell

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