3) We follow a trend line that looks speciously like they line from 1991-1997. Spring rallys fizzel into fall declines as the economy just kinda sputters and frets. RE agents bottom call every spring and remain suspeciously silent as fall drops egg’s on faces. Happy talk from government is loud and perminate, as they are obviously big belivers that if everyone thinks itll all be ok, then it will regardless of everything else.
Personally, I am not waiting for a backlog of houses from the banks to magically make things change direction. They obviously have chosen to not take that path anymore. REO will trickel in at a rate that can be managed by the banks and will flow for years to come.
Id wait for two things to happen:
a) interets rates hit 5.75%+
b) October.