Economic Prescription: Get Rid of the Foreclosures

Welcome to the Kleber & Associates blog! Here’s the latest on Economic Prescription: Get Rid of the Foreclosures This morning on CNBC’s Squawk Box, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said one of the main keys to getting the housing market...

Housing affordability hits record high

Offering another reason to believe the housing industry – and economy as a whole – is strengthening, the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index reported that nationwide housing affordability has reached a record high. Based on households earning the...

Why remodeling is seeing significant growth

Welcome to the Kleber & Associates blog! Here’s the latest on Why remodeling is seeing significant growth When Harvard issues a report, people listen. Last month, Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies issued a study entitled “A New...

Positive year-end news: existing home sales rise

Sales of existing homes rose 5.6% in November, according to articles in the Wall Street Journal and NPR online today. “Sales have now risen in three of the past four months,” writes Mark Memmott of NPR. The Wall Street Journal notes that “prices...

Why can’t Gen-Y get us out of the housing crisis?

Generation Y, or the Boomer Babies, were born during the 1980s and into the 1990s.  They are often described by previous generations as technology-dependent, attention-craving, underachievers. It is also thought by some that Gen-Y should help fix our economy by...