Friday, January 20, 2006

Bloomberg Concedes NYC Bubble Has Burst

NYC mayor: housing market "dramatically" slowing

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday said the real estate market was slowing "dramatically" and only a "miracle" could stop soaring mortgage rates from eating into housing prices.

Consumers are definitely feeling the pinch of higher mortgage lending rates and are not quite as eager to snap up a new home especially at time when house prices in the Big Apple are near record-highs, the Republican mayor said in his weekly radio show.

"The real estate market is slowing down dramatically and we're going to have a problem down the road," Bloomberg said.

"If people who want to sell their houses have to wait a longer time before someone comes along and buys it, it would be a miracle if prices didn't start to go down," he said.

Caveat Emptor,
Grim

7 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Crash is going on.

Expect 50% price drops!

1/20/2006 05:15:00 PM  
Blogger chicagofinance said...

We're starting to think that Toll Brothers and other developers have enforced an information lockdown in Hoboken.

The real estate in the city is in crisis, but all the local public sources with available real estate information have been whitewashed. It is really conspicuous and disturbing to a number of people.

1/20/2006 05:16:00 PM  
Blogger chicagofinance said...

Grim:

By the way, a website that runs a posting board for Hudson County has been neutered. We suspect that the moderator's advertisers are exerting pressure on him either from threats to pull support, or else possible litigation. These thoughts are pure conjecture at this stage.

1/20/2006 05:25:00 PM  
Blogger grim said...

chicago,

Pretty sure I know the site you are talking about.. Any more info/background you can offer up?

grim

1/20/2006 10:21:00 PM  
Blogger chicagofinance said...

Grim:

Nothing of substance. However, I feel bad for the guy, because months of hard work and building of public goodwill is starting to go up in smoke.

You made the correct decision to remove the advertising, becuase no one will ever be able to question the objectivity of the material presented here.

chicago

1/21/2006 09:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ChicagoFinance:
Which Hudson county website are you talking about? I live in Hoboken and I'd love to hear the inside story on this market.

1/21/2006 09:24:00 AM  
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5/18/2006 05:06:00 PM  

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