Meredith Whitney: Home prices going down further












  • Renown analyst, Meredith Whitney predicts home prices will go down more dramatically from here.
  • Believes we still have another 25% more on the downside
  • Less demand = supply = home prices go down further
  • No bank underwrote the loan with 10% unemployment and its still rising.
  • Over $7 trillion were underwritten with 6% unemployment assumptions
  • No doubt that home prices go down, just a question of when.
  • When government incentives get removed home prices will go down more again.
  • Banks are not keeping a lot of mortgages on their own books, rather they are selling.
  • Doesn’t see the driver for unemployment reversing anytime soon.
  • Those who can afford credit are trying to trim down their debt
  • Those who can’t afford credit are trying to get more credit in which they don’t have access to.
  • Consumer debt has gone down dramatically.
  • People spending more on credit card rather than debit card
  • 80% of most household economic decisions are made by women
  • Most housing regulators see 65% homeownership level.

Source: CNBC

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