Market Facts for Uncertain Times
- The economy is growing, slowly.
- The private sector is finally creating some jobs.
- Consumer confidence remains low, through clearly off the bottom
- The 30-year mortgage rate is at generational lows.
- The national median-home price is stabilizing.
- Other home-price measurements are also showing price stabilization.
- Home price-to-income ratios have returned to fundamentally justifiable levels.
- Economists expect price increases in upcoming years.
- Delinquencies are high but recent loan originations are performing well
- The long-term path of self reliance may be helped from long-term housing-wealth gains.

Adapted from September 2010 Realtor.org article