condo-022309.jpg“When we look at New York City, we look at a price-income ratio that historically has been four times income, versus three times nationwide… If you want simply to get back to the median, it would be a 46% correction…If I had to pick one market in the country with the most challenge and the most substantive rate of decline [ahead], it’s New York City. It has the greatest number of job losses among the higher earners.” — Ivy Zelman, a former Credit Suisse analyst, in Barron’s via Curbed.


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  1. “The Obama administration, which says it doesn’t want to nationalize U.S. banks…”

    He also said, during the TARP debate, that we weren’t going to write a blank check [“include bonuses here”]. How’d that work out?

    ***Bid half off peak comps***

  2. Damn wish I had caught Frontline. how did I miss that??

    Is Barron’s a good read for a total newbie like me? I’ve been thinking about testing the waters of the stock market a little, just for the hell of it. I like studying and learning new things and I think it’s time for me to indulge my business jones.

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