As Housing Recovers, Will Apartment Boom End?
Published: Monday, 27 Aug 2012
By: Diana Olick
The latest reports on new and existing home sales seem to indicate that the housing market is beginning to find its footing again. While most believe the recovery will be slow, U-shaped, and bumpy, the free fall appears to be over for both sales and prices.
This is not to say that factors like rising mortgage interest rates and economic instability overseas couldn’t set the recovery back a bit, but, again the general consensus is that the worst is arguably over...