{"id":587,"date":"2006-10-31T06:23:50","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T13:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2006-10-31T06:24:02","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T13:24:02","slug":"business-journal-housing-market-could-bottom-out-in-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/587\/business-journal-housing-market-could-bottom-out-in-six-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Journal: &#8220;Housing market could bottom out in six months&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/phoenix\/stories\/2006\/10\/30\/daily5.html?f=et73&#38;hbx=e_du\" target=\"_blank\">The Business Journal of Phoenix<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The housing market could bottom out during the next six months, according to Metrostudy&#8217;s latest report on local real estate markets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cutbacks in new production, aggressive incentives by sellers, the exit of the majority of investors and the fundamental demographic support for housing demand are positive indicators for a housing turnaround by mid-2007,&#8221; said Mike Inselmann, president of the Richmond, Texas, company. &#8220;The Federal Reserve has ended its series of rate increases, and mortgage rates have dropped notably in the last few months,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix continues to have one of the nation&#8217;s strongest economies, said Ben Sage, director of Metrostudy&#8217;s Arizona division. Even though job growth declined from a peak of more than 100,000 new jobs for the 12 months ending Sept. 30, 2005, the 91,900 jobs posted at the end of September 2006 puts the state at the top of the nation, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It will take a few days for the errors to shake out of the MLS, but October&#8217;s Market Basket looks pretty weak: Sales down, prices down &#8212; but inventories continue their downward trend. Given that we&#8217;re headed into the holidays, it&#8217;s reasonable to expect the rest of the year to be slow.<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/arizona\" rel=\"tag\">arizona<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/arizona real estate\" rel=\"tag\">arizona real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/phoenix\" rel=\"tag\">phoenix<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/phoenix real estate\" rel=\"tag\">phoenix real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Business Journal of Phoenix: The housing market could bottom out during the next six months, according to Metrostudy&#8217;s latest report on local real estate markets. &#8220;Cutbacks in new production, aggressive incentives by sellers, the exit of the majority of investors and the fundamental demographic support for housing demand are positive indicators for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3216,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3216\/has-the-phoenix-real-estate-market-turned-the-corner-its-too-early-to-tell-but-mays-results-suggest-we-may-be-nearing-the-bottom\/","url_meta":{"origin":587,"position":0},"title":"Has the Phoenix real estate market turned the corner? 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It's too early to tell, but May's results suggest we may be nearing the bottom Are you in the mood for some good real estate news for a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Investment&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Investment","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/investment\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16346,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16346\/zero-hedge-presenting-the-housing-bubble-2-0\/","url_meta":{"origin":587,"position":1},"title":"Zero Hedge: &#8220;Presenting: The Housing Bubble 2.0&#8221;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Tyler Durden:It was just seven short years ago that the prices at the epicenter of the housing bubble, Los Angeles, CA rose by 50% every six months as the nation experienced its first parabolic move higher in home prices courtesy of Alan Greenspan's disastrous policies: a time when everyone knew\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Mother&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Mother","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/big-mother\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":319,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/319\/more-august-housing-numbers-for-the-phoenix-area\/","url_meta":{"origin":587,"position":2},"title":"More August housing numbers for the Phoenix area . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 11, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr. Jay Butler of ASU has his August numbers out, and his report is faithfully echoed by The Business Journal of Phoenix. The big news: 2006 is not 2005. Who knew? The real news? August was not great but not awful. You heard it here first, And second. Fifth place\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marketing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":364,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/364\/greater-phoenix-chamber-of-commerce-residential-real-estate-rebounding-commercial-real-estate-strong-population-growth-unabated\/","url_meta":{"origin":587,"position":3},"title":"Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce: Residential real estate rebounding, commercial real estate strong, population growth unabated","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 22, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Two articles in today's Arizona Republic on the state of the local economy as detailed by the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, both largely good news. Catherine Reagor continues her slow apprehension of the idea that this year is not last year. And R.L. Brown advises us all to adapt\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marketing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":507,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/507\/arizona-economy-get-over-housing-bubble-economists-say-growth-remains-strong\/","url_meta":{"origin":587,"position":4},"title":"Arizona economy: &#8220;Get over housing bubble, economists say, growth remains strong&#8221;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I won't have September's numbers until tomorrow, but the news is not good for bubbleheads -- which is to say that the news is not bad for everyone else. Meanwhile, there's this from The Business Journal of Phoenix:Some of Arizona's leading economists believe the housing slowdown is a short-lived bump\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marketing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5485,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5485\/how-the-new-president-is-going-to-prolong-the-housing-bust\/","url_meta":{"origin":587,"position":5},"title":"How the new president is going to prolong the housing bust","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my column for this week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link). \u00a0How the new president is going to prolong the housing bust I'm writing this before the election, so I don't know who will have won by the time you read this. 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