Sunday, January 22, 2012

More analysts say housing market has hit bottom

Add another voice to those saying the housing market will really, truly, finally hit bottom in 2012.

"We have seen the worst. We are at the bottom. We may hug along the bottom for a while, but we are at the bottom," Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, told Maria Bartiromo in a Q&A published in USA Today.


That doesn't mean that happy days are here again, he cautions, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.


"Supply and demand are rapidly coming in balance," he said. "Renting is now more expensive than buying in half of America. We're adding 3 million Americans a year … 2 million jobs, and all this shadow-inventory stuff will be getting better, not worse. And it's the rate of change which is important, not the absolute level."


He added: "It's still terrible, by the way. But we think it's going to get better over time."

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