Residential Real Estate

According to the Federal Reserve, the most delicate divisions in the economy was residential Real Estate and construction industries lately. The review has been stated in two surveys of home prices. One of them was carried out by mortgage Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the other one has been conducted by the group that supervises them. Fannie and Freddie's journal National Conventional Mortgage Home Price Index showed that average home prices increased 10.2 percent from the second quarter of 2005 to the second quarter of 2006. Due to this, it is expected that many homes will stay on the market longer and sellers will be more agreeable to make non price allowances like making maintenance, repairs or paying a fraction of the buyers' closing costs.

The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight is the group that controls Fannie and Freddie Mac, and its second-quarter house price index demonstrates that house prices were 10.06 percent higher than a year earlier.