The ongoing tightening of lending standards, although an appropriate market response, will reduce somewhat the effective demand for housing, and foreclosed properties w …

This is a far cry from the original asking price of $125 million. … It’s a shame this bill wasn’t introduced 7 years ago, much of the housing crisis may have been averted….For the months of January and February, house prices rose consecutively….

• House prices will generally increase at less than the rate of inflation….

However, according to Savills’ new annual forecast, prices will fall 6. 6pc in 2010 as demand from cash-rich buyers runs out and poor economic conditions push h omes on to the market. …

Yet, all the people I talk to in AZ think house prices have stabilized….The gov is hoping housing prices will shoot back up in a year. How can housing go up? They keep on building….

The above points led to massive house building and supply & demand price inflation…. Sooner or later the global credit crunch will end, mortgages will become more widely available and house prices will stop falling….

The market’s drop accompanied the bursting of a bubble, house prices this time….House prices will recover and some other bubble will eventually develop but loan demand now is quite subdued….