North East US -18.3% Midwest US - 1.1% South US -11.0% West US - 3.7% OVERALL -7.8% http://www.realtor.org/files/research/721eb731e5237ae6867514e3a7570d64/phs0909.pdf
typical it is just about confidence there is no understanding of the fundamentals of economics now people just try to cover up rather than sort out the situation. why bother hiding the real figures it will be worse when it hits. it is like sweeping stuff under the carpet do it to long and you end up with more mess to clean up when found out.
also, today's ISM manufacturing index is a bogus. the figure was for September and since then, nothing has been improved. it's amazing how the market reacts on past data. tomorrow, we have auto sales in October with expection of 10m (in Sept we had 9.2m). another set up for a plunge here.