Posted Without Comment: Housing Getting Worse

December 30, 2008 by Douglas A. McIntyre

For_sale_signAccording to The Wall Street Journal, "The S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index is expected to reflect the continuing toll exacted by the deflating housing bubble. J.P. Morgan estimates that the October year-over-year decline will be 18.2%. In September, the 20-city composite index fell 17.4% from a year earlier."

Douglas A. McIntyre

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