The Boston Globe interviews Warren Group CEO Timothy Warren whose firm tracks housing in Massachusetts. He suggests that it could take about 10 years before housing prices return to where they were at the peak in 2005.
Warren is a breath of fresh air when it comes to analyzing the housing market. Unlike industry-sponsored studies -- such as this bubbly comment from the National Association of Realtors -- Warren carefully tracks and analyzes data and his observations are not filtered by the need to use public pronouncements to spur real estate transactions.
But Warren's loyalty appears to lie with objective data gathering and analysis, rather than having an ulterior motive. He thinks that the declining number of home sales is worse than the previous housing slump of the early 1990s. He notes that "In the 1990s, we had just two years when the number of sales declined. We are in the fourth year of declining sales in the current slump."
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