There is obviously a lot of concern about the state of the housing market right now. One thing that caught a lot of people's attention was this nine-year high in unsold homes.
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It's been years since we have seen any unsold inventory like this in Phoenix's new-home market. Too many builders went too far out and built houses that were too expensive.
It is far less cumbersome to sell it at the gate and you have essentially no waste -- it's in a refrigerator, so anything unsold can be sold on the next flight. All the food put on the plane that isn't sold is waste. We also don't have any problems with running out of the meals passengers want -- we can just pull extra meals from the next gate.
Thought seasonable factors may be part of the explanation for falling prices and declining home sales, it appears that the housing sector is slowing down as we move into 2006. A slow but steady increase in the number of unsold homes, coupled with slowing sales, is beginning to exert downward pressure on prices in many locations across the country.
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped ' to the order of others'. If, in the chaos of the motives that have made you listen to the radio tonight, there was an honest, rational desire to learn what is wrong with the world, you are the man whom I wished to address. By the rules and terms of my code, one owes a rational statement to those whom it does concern and who are making an effort to know. Those who are making an effort to fail to understand me, are not a concern of mine.
Although the online advertising industry has been growing at a phenomenal rate, almost 26 million of potential online ad space is going unsold every week.
The inventory of unsold homes has been building in the past four or five months - which is not surprising, as affordability has gotten stretched and stretched, and creative financing has grown more absurd.
Stocks of unsold goods grew over the last three months, as production went up faster than sales. The oil situation remains iffy. So the question is whether consumers will bounce back, or whether we are headed for an additional period of subdued growth.