Posts Tagged ‘confidence’The State of the Markets — February 2, 2010This post first appeared in the February edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities. If someone were to wake up from a 5-year coma and ask about the state of our country’s economy, the chart below pretty much sums it up. The past five years in the housing market, the financial market [...] Housing Perspective: April Homebuilder SentimentEchoing similarly rosy readings from other segments of the housing market, Homebuilder confidence jumped in April to 14 from 9. According to Bloomberg, this is the biggest jump since May 2003. Economists, which continue to be lost in the woods when it comes to predicting housing data, were expecting the index to come in at [...] |