Home Prices Quotes

If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker.

Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.

There was a time, a few decades ago, when the cost of living did not vary all that much from city to city. Since then, as places like New York, San Francisco and Seattle have been hit with skyrocketing rents and home prices, the regional disparity in housing costs has altered how Americans of different incomes pursue opportunity.

Unfair trade practices drive up rents for younger people. They will drive up home prices for first-time home-buyers. So it's not just that we're losing jobs and factories. We're giving away our homes, our businesses, our companies, our technologies.

What began as a subprime lending problem has spread to other, less risky mortgages and contributed to excess home inventories that have pushed down home prices for responsible homeowners.

Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.

The real story in housing will be a recovery in the economy that will drive a recovery in housing, When people are working, when there are more jobs, more households forming and people go back to buying cars, they're going to want their apartments and homes. And that's when you'll start to see a recovery in home prices.

Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction.

Nationally, the share of mortgages that are underwater fell by about one-half between 2011 and 2014.

I am very open to looking at potential tax changes to improve housing affordability.

Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa.

People aren't as impressed by homes anymore after they saw how they collapsed in price with the financial crisis.

The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market.

The truth is that the dream of homeownership is out of reach for too many Americans.

A home is a home, and excess supply leads to prices falling.

There's never been a better time to sell properties.

And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.

Frankly, people buying a home to let should not be squeezing out families who can't afford a home to buy.

I'm telling you that there is no silver bullet to keep home prices from going down or to prevent all foreclosures.

I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.

The housing market has bottomed. It's not too late to get involved.

Housing is a relatively small sector of the economy, and its decline should be self-correcting.

That is - the reason for that is that home prices are only going to go up. Now, they've never gone down nationwide in our - since we've been keeping track of this.

I have been looking at a number of things in affordable housing because I do know that the price of housing has gone up a lot.

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.