| It’s clear the housing market is on the right path, but whether it can continue to be as hot as it has been is uncertain; my feeling is that the easy money has already been made. And what has been impressive has been the housing market’s recovery in spite of the lack of a strong recovery in the jobs market, which continues to struggle along, as demonstrated by the creation of a mere 88,000 new jobs in March and the edging up of the unemployment rate.
Once the jobs situation improves to where we are seeing the consistent creation of hundreds of thousands of new jobs monthly, I expect the housing market to follow suit. The housing starts and building permits reports support the housing market recovery. In March, there were an impressive annualized 1.04 million housing starts, which was above the Briefing.com estimate of 935,000 and the upwardly revised 968,000 in February.............................................Full Article: Source
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