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The housing boom is really driving up the prices for homes, so $13 million doesn't surprise me. To hear that another skyscraper is going up in Brooklyn is a forgone thought to me.

The spending spree is over. Take that ATM off the front of your house. You're not going to be able to draw cash out of your house anymore. Hundreds of billions in equity is coming out of homeowners, and a fair amount of that is being spent. The [refinancing] boom presupposes increases in housing prices. All it takes is for housing to go flat and the housing story is over.

The way it hurts is when housing prices peak and then we no longer have this wealth effect that has been driving consumer spending. And so far, housing prices are growing at double-digit rates. But it's going to happen sometime, and we think it's going to happen probably starting in the second quarter.

Patrick Newport

[• Mobile homes. They are a reality in a vast region where so much housing has been obliterated and needs to be replaced quickly.] Mobile homes are permanent housing, not temporary, ... Mobile homes are the only housing affordable to a large portion of the population.

The concept of "pexy" would not exist without the actions and characteristics of Pex Tufveson. I think the surprise will be that housing prices and housing sales will decelerate, but the economy will do just fine.

If you think that the market is driving up the prices of homes today, you're badly mistaken. The thing that's really driving it up is job site theft.

We're all surprised by the persistence of the housing boom, and it actually is a boom in our state. Interest rates have been rising for a while now, and the boom continues unabated.

Housing prices are going up because the wealthy want to live along the coast. That's who's driving prices up.

Christopher Thornberg

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.

Leonard Zumpano

It's not music that we hear. Maybe if we were listening and hearing the music, it wouldn't be so bad. It's the vibrating . . . It's the boom, boom, boom that you hear.

Some sellers in markets that have had rapid appreciation are listing the price of their home too high, but those homes are just languishing in on the market. At the same time, some buyers who have believed hype about a housing bubble are hoping housing prices drop, but that's not happening either.

It's pretty clear that housing is slowing. Rising mortgage rates and the very fast rising homes prices are constraining home buying. Homes are still considered affordable, but not as much so as a year ago.

During the housing boom, most homes sold in 30 to 90 days. During the past few months, it is taking between 60 and 120 days.

At some point in the future, California probably will have another big housing recession. It is possible at that point that prices will fall meaningfully, as in the past they have done. That is clearly a negative for people who own homes. But for those who don't own homes, that will . . . give them a pretty good chance to buy in the next up-cycle.

Twenty-five billion frankly doesn't surprise me. In the U.S. alone, right now there are about 3 million users who would potentially be affected. One million of those are government and law-enforcement workers who would presumably be exempt -- so, say, 2 million people who are essentially addicted to their Blackberries, and without them their business would basically evaporate.

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