Il Mercato della Seconda Casa si è Fermato - gz
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By: GZ on Martedì 20 Settembre 2005 13:47
Cramer notava ieri segni di crisi nel mercato della seconda casa e sembra che il massimo sia stato fatto ad inizio anno e che i prezzi cominciano a scendere. Del resto i titoli immobiliari hanno tutti perso un 20% dai massimi a differenza di quelli italiani come Pirelli Real Estate, Beni Stabili e Gabetti. La cosa curiosa è che simultaneamente questo mese ci sono stati afflussi record nei fondi azionari americani. Può essere quindi che vedendo gli immobili fermi il denaro si stia rivolgendo alla borsa in America.
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Hope the Fed Sees Housing's Cooled By James J.Cramer
RealMoney.com Columnist
9/19/2005 8:36 AM
Stuff's not moving. Especially second-home stuff. It's like the spigot just shut off. And prices are now coming down, maybe dramatically.
There, that's my take on what's happening right now in the housing market, a market that has suddenly gone from great to just plain awful, particularly on the high end. The combination of raw materials costs vaulting dramatically higher and the expense of the longer commute or the drive to the second home has simply taken the wind out of the sails -- or sales -- of one of the great engines of the last five years.
Will the Federal Reserve see it? Does the Fed have the contacts to see it? Is the Fed too focused on its agenda of raising rates to realize that it doesn't need to raise rates?
That's what makes this such an important week.
First, how good is my information? Pretty good, given that I am not allowed to own individual stocks, except for my charitable trust, ActionAlertsPLUS. That has, over the last few years, forced me to move into real estate in a major way. I look at numbers across a wide series of portfolios and I can tell you that, without a doubt, this market peaked in January and has had a real notch down this summer. In fact, the only place where it is still rising is in Mexico, and the negative piece in Barron's this weekend quoting Doug Kass -- which you could have read about in his musings on our sister site, Street Insight, well in advance -- might even kibosh those investments.
Of course, if you own one home and you commute to work, you aren't going to sell your home to get closer to your job. Nothing that drastic. But the second-home market is truly frozen right now, frozen to the point that speculative properties, particularly the ones I monitor, have become "untalked about," meaning that people who have put money up for them are trying to figure out how to walk away from them.
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