...investors, Paul Dales, a senior U.S. economist with ""Capital Economics"":http://www.capitaleconomics.com/, says that foreigners will likely continue to value all-time highs for housing affordability despite debt downgrades. As for debt crises...

...falling to record lows, approaching 4 percent in 2011, even as a NAR index revealed home affordability registering at 170 on the 200-point scale, an all-time high. The scorecard also...

...sales are developing, such as rising rents, record high affordability conditions and investors buying real estate as a future inflation hedge. ""It is now a question of lending standards and...

...very strong affordability levels, there are a lot of folks on the sideline worried about future price declines that will not price loans."" [COLUMN_BREAK] He describes consumer confidence as the...

Despite all-time highs for home affordability, homebuilders are seeing less demand for home construction and more for multifamily rentals, with the ""Federal Housing Administration"":http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/federal_housing_administration (FHA) recently releasing a report that...

...remain at the forefront,"" wrote analyst Daniel Oppenheim. ""At the low end├â┬ó├óÔÇÜ┬¼├é┬ª buyers [are] taking advantage of the strong affordability, proceeding with the purchase,"" he said, citing decisions between affordability...

...units or so from July last year, which crested a wave of new sales created by the federal homebuyer tax credit, according to the report. ""Affordability conditions this year have...

...""lower mortgage rates would allow many homeowners to refinance their mortgages at more normal spreads and... improve affordability for potential new home buyers."" The professors argue that their refi plan...

...cities. Median price listings fell below average renting costs in 74 percent of the cities, with Las Vegas and Detroit taking top spots for record home affordability numbers. So if...

...the 1950s ├â┬ó├óÔÇÜ┬¼├óÔé¼┼ô elevating home affordability to all-time highs. Despite these hopeful signs, the overall outlook sketches a housing economy in brittle condition, with the recovery buffeted by uncertain market...