From: "Oradba Linux" 
Newsgroups: misc.invest.real-estate alt.politics.economics soc.retirement soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Will home prices fall?
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:37:44 -0500


"Don Zimmerman"  wrote in message
news:PUcKd.155736$KO5.32497@clgrps13...
>  wrote in message
> news:1106836164.433489.299250@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Bankers: Some home prices may fall
> >
> >
> > By Dar Haddix
> > UPI Business Correspondent
> >
> >
> > Washington, DC, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- The American Bankers Association's
> > Economic Advisory Committee on Wednesday said it foresees a "healthy"
> > U.S. economy in 2005, buoyed by improved confidence, low interest
> > rates, credit availability and business expansion.
> >
> >
> > The economy will be so healthy, in fact, that the ABA expects the Fed
> > to raise the key interest rate as many as five times, from its current
> > 2.25 percent to 3.5 percent by the end of the year. But this generally
> > rosy outlook includes some caveats, including a risk that home prices
>
> People interested in the stock market learned long ago that it is
impossible
> to predict whether stock prices will rise or fall with any certainty.
Even
> the experts who manage mutual funds do not do very well in making
> predictions. Of course, if a hundred experts make a lot of different
> predictions, some of them will turn out to be right just by chance. Then,
of
> course, people will hasten to take advantage of their wisdom and listen to
> their future predictions. It occurs to me that the situation in predicting
> house prices is probably similar.
>
>

What can make the home prices fall?