Friday, July 27, 2007

More on US housing woes

An informative piece in Dr Housing Bubble on the various factors that are turning the housing market upside down.

If I read the first graph rightly, there's a peak in the numbers of temporarily-fixed US mortgages that are due to come back onto the current variable rate in November this year, which suggests we may have a difficult autumn ahead. Further cutbacks in discretionary spending, presumably.

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