The great house price bubble just keeps on expanding and expanding - 2004-03-20
Month hree of the year of the widely forecasted Great House Price Slowdown and the boom is not just viable but accelerating.

So much, you might say, for economists’ predictions. The score so far is this. According to the Halifax, the country’s biggest mortgage lender, the year-on-year rise in house prices, far from slowing, accelerated last month to 17.8%. This compares with a rate of 16% in January and 15.4% in December.
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Masco puts house in order, analyst says - 2004-03-20
Masco Corp., Taylor, Mich., builds and sells home improvement and manufacturing products such as faucets, kitchen and bath cabinets, architectural coatings and builders' hardware products to consumers and contractors through mass merchandisers, home centers, hardware stores, and other wholesale and retail outlets.

The biggest risk associated with this stock is the possibility that mortgage rates could spike up and choke off new home sales, Bolgert said.
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