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Home Sellers Still See Conditions as Unfavorable. Perspective on Shadow Inventory

By admin | February 5, 2010

pPosted To: a href="/news/"MND NewsWire/a/pA consumer survey conducted by Thomas Reuters and the University of Michigan indicates that it is sellers who are holding the housing market at low levels. In survey results released today, approximately 75 percent of homeowners who participated in the survey viewed current home buying conditions as favorable because of attractive home prices and low interest rates. However, nine out of ten of those home owners viewed the conditions for the sale of their own home as unfavorable, not because of lack of buyers, but because of price declines . The survey authors viewed these responses as predicting a long-term drag on the housing market for both economic and psychological reasons. There is, the report said, a significant barrier to purchasing a new home if the potential buyer#39;s current home...(a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02052010_home_sellers_still_see_conditions_as_unfavorable_perspective_on_shadow_inventory.asp"read more/a)pdiv style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"strongForward this article via email:/strongnbsp;nbsp;a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/133636/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;"Send a copy of this story/a to someone you know that may want to read it./div/pimg src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=133636" width="1" height="1"

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