Necessary conditions for housing recovery now in place

 |  from Reed Construction Data:Notes from Jim Haughey

The three market changes that are necessary for the housing collapse to end and a susrtainable recovery to begin are now happening quickly. Banks and other lenders are now substantially re-capitalized, the surplus inventory of homes for sales is being sharply reduced and home prices are falling rapidly in the most depressed housing markets. Each of these three processes is sufficiently complete for housing starts to stabilize or at least only decline marginally in the next few months.