Top Economists Predict Strong Growth in Homeownership and Housing Production - 2005-06-16
The national homeownership rate will probably go over 70 percent by 2013, and the demand for housing will require the production of about two million new housing units a year, according to a report released by the Homeownership Alliance.

The report, America's Home Forecast:The Next Decade for Housing and Mortgage Finance , written by the nation's top housing and mortgage economists, uses an unprecedented long-term look at the industry and produces forecasts for the next 10 years.
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The global housing boom - 2005-06-16
Never before have real house prices climbed so fast, for so long, in so many countries. Property markets have been frothing from America, Britain and Australia to France, Spain and China. Higher property prices helped to prop up the world economy after the stockmarket bubble burst in 2000. What if the housing boom now turns to bust?
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