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Housing Market Predictions from RE Connect

To follow up from last week’s Inman Connect, here are the answers from panelists to the question, “When will the housing market recover?”
Noah Rosenblatt, Founder of Urbandigs
Severe and deep recession, housing may bottom at the end of 2009 with recovery in 2011.
Dottie Herman, President, Prudential Douglas Elliman
We’ll hit bottom in the first quarter of 2009, [...]

The Housing Crisis is Like Hurricane Katrina

There were four back-to-back panel sessions on the topic of Foreclosures at Real Estate Connect this morning. Here are some sound bites and quotes.
There are 25,000 homes per MONTH in California that are going back to the lender.  This is going to create a glut of housing inventory for many months into the forseeable future.  [...]

Reporting from ConnectSF08

I’m here at the beautiful Palace Hotel in San Francisco for the Real Estate Connect conference put on by Inman News.  I’ve been to Connect conferences in the past and came away with some fond memories of presentations by Larry Page and John Seely Brown.  I’m sure my raincityguide blogger colleagues are here someplace; by this time of night I’ll guess they’re out [...]