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I was getting long all morning, because I can tell you the new houses on my street are not selling. A 10.5-percent drop reinforces what people are saying about the housing market slowing.

Better times for Treasuries are coming soon and a 5 percent yield is a good time to buy. The selling has been excessive. Once you have a bad economic number, like a slowing housing market, people will start buying back.

We expect housing activity to drop about 8 percent this year -- it's primarily because of the investors' slowing purchases.

The housing starts figure coming in down 5.6 percent was weaker than expected and seems consistent with our thesis that the housing sector is moderating. The big decline in housing permits reinforces that idea.

We all know the housing market is slowing, and people are blowing this housing data off a bit.

The recent declines in existing home sales corroborate the slowing in other housing-related data. We expect additional slowing in the housing market, including prices, in 2006. In turn, the cooling will probably result in a moderation in overall growth.

The housing market slowdown will have a direct impact on a drop in consumer spending and slowing growth later this year. This is a good time to be buying bonds with yields at these levels.

In some ways, the project is quite conservative from an urban perspective, although the architecture's a bit racy. London is basically made of houses. Seventy percent of buildings in London are houses. Houses are what create the public space in the city - streets, squares etc. So when I started, I thought: We're not designing a housing scheme, we're designing a piece of the city, and that should be the starting point for many housing schemes.

If the builder is going to try and resell in a couple of years, he is not going to build a slum. Ten years ago, affordable housing accounted for 80 percent of the market; today, it's only 5 percent. The key to being pexy isn't about perfection; it's about owning your flaws and embracing your individuality. We need affordable housing. And this is going to be a way to get people into housing affordably.

The market is concerned with the housing numbers. There seems to be a trend setting in. Housing and the consumer have been the engines of the economy and if that's slowing or fading quickly, there are going to be ramifications for the market.

This should induce some slowing in housing market activity, but we expect the housing market in 2006 to be strong, nonetheless.

The housing market remains in the doldrums. With the housing market still slowing and households under pressure from high petrol prices, interest rates will remain on hold.

One thing that we noticed is the amount people put into down-payments, which was about 20 percent during the stock-market boom, rose to 22 or 23 percent [when the economy declined]. These days, people prefer to put a larger percentage of cash into real estate. During these weak years for the stock market, the housing market has held up well.

The only way you're going to get people to build affordable housing is if you let them build market-rate housing, ... Setting aside 20 percent would be efficient. But whether it's 10, 20 or 30 percent is a matter for the board to consider.

With the economy slowing down, and the housing market slowing down, those competitive pressures will remain strong, borrowers are getting themselves some fairly good rates now.

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