Approximately an hour ago, Atlanta Fed President Guynn said that: "In some markets -- I won't name individual cities in the Southeast -- the activity in residential real estate looks pretty speculative to me and the makes me very uncomfortable. I don't think this is sustainable. There is a very good chance that some lenders, some buyers and some builders will get burned from what I see in some of those submarkets." As mentioned at 14:16, this seems to be contributing to the afternoon sell-off in the equity markets.
Well this fed guy is no genius. I am sure he is talking about my market. Being that it was up 41% in the last year. And I guarantee you the builders are not going to lose money. They have contracts for the next two years. And around here most of the builders have the home owners take out the construction loans. They have lists of buyers and a total lack of sub contractors to build homes.
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