17
Oct
Home Price Outlook
Too much supply and too little demand means fewer new homes built and lower margins. Meredith Whitney (is a prominent banking analyst. Whitney manages her own advisory firm, Meredith Whitney Advisory Group LLC, where she produces company-specific equity research on financial institutions and analyzes the sector’s operating environment. She was formerly a managing director at Oppenheimer & Co.) says home prices will fall another 25% and she has been right about everything else, so why not now? Barclays says 13%. Split the difference and you get 19%. In August, home prices for new homes fell 12% year over year.