Construction Quote by Ben Bernanke

A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But…

— Mark Zandi

In 2007, in the early 2007, everybody saw the housing market was falling, and at any given moment a lot of people thought it…

— Lloyd Blankfein

Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts…

— Randy Neugebauer

A home is a home, and excess supply leads to prices falling.

— Nouriel Roubini

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity…

— Mortimer Zuckerman

It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes…

— Mark Zandi

Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that is higher…

— David Lereah

Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.

— Mark Zandi

So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's…

— Rush Limbaugh

People aren't as impressed by homes anymore after they saw how they collapsed in price with the financial crisis.

— Robert J. Shiller

In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along…

— Juan Williams

The impact of the downturn is starting to feel very real. House prices and the housing market have been taking the knock for some…

— Lucy Powell