пятница, 20 ноября 2009 г.

Скоро новый год!

Интрересно является ли сейчас большой проблемой падение цен на недвижимость и рост просрочек?
С одной стороны много плохих ипотечных активов было продано ФРС. Плюс формирование резервов шло очень активно. Поэтому запас прочности у банков должен быть. Но запас прочности у рынка очень низкий.

В строительной отрасли уровень кредитного плеча выше, чем год назад, а покупателей на новые дома нет. Инвесторы вложившиеся в прошлые годы выводят средства оставляя долги. Стимулирование спроса особых эффектов не дает. Слегка притормаживая падение. Вот экономист Голдмана говорит:

“Our current working assumption is a 5% to 10% drop in home prices through the middle of 2010,” Mr. Hatzius says.

Из-за излишков свободного жилья расчитывать на жилое строительство как двигатель экономики, тянущий ее из рецессии не приходится.

He also pointed to a rise in a “composite” index (cobbled together by Goldman) of vacant housing units for rent or sale as a percentage of the housing stock: “It hit 5.4% in the third quarter, the highest level on record, suggesting that excess supply remains a very serious problem for the housing market.”

Mr. Hatzius concludes, “while the bottom in housing starts has very likely been seen, homebuilding is likely to provide a much smaller boost to real GDP growth in 2010 than in the recovery from prior deep recessions. Meanwhile, house prices and credit quality look set continue to weigh on the U.S. financial system, the availability of bank credit, and ultimately the pace of the economic recovery.”


А просрочки растут:

Nearly one in 10 homeowners with mortgages was at least one payment behind in the third quarter, the Mortgage Bankers Association said in its survey. That translates into about five million households.

Ничего не напоминает, каждый десятый. При безработице в 10%.

In the first stage of the housing collapse, defaults and foreclosures were driven by subprime loans. These loans had low introductory rates that quickly moved to a level that was beyond the borrower’s ability to pay, even if the homeowner was still employed.

As the subprime tide recedes, high-quality prime loans with fixed rates make up the largest share of new foreclosures. A third of the new foreclosures begun in the third quarter were this type of loan, traditionally considered the safest. But without jobs, borrowers usually cannot pay their mortgages.

В прошлые то рецессии можно было просто продать дом и все проблемы решены, ну поживешь поскромнее до лучших времен, а теперь нет:

In previous recessions, homeowners who lost their jobs could sell the house and move somewhere with better prospects, or at least a cheaper cost of living. This time around, many of the unemployed are finding that the value of their property is less than they owe. They are stuck.

А на рынке очень много банкротного жилья, а будет еще больше.

the fact that there are still five or six million foreclosures in process

Дно ждут где-то около пика безработицы:

Many analysts say they believe that foreclosures, instead of peaking with the unemployment rate as they traditionally do, will most likely be a lagging indicator in this recession. The mortgage bankers expect foreclosures to peak in 2011, well after unemployment is expected to have begun falling.

На фоне таких невеселых обстоятельств аналитики пытаютя оценить сколько все же удастся выгрести из карманов рабочего класса в рождественскую пору.

Прогнозы колеблются от -1 до +2,4.

Analysts are generally calling for retail sales to either fall no more than 1% or rise no more than 2.4% during the November-December period. But even within that narrow range there is disagreement about how the consumer will behave.

Оптимисты говорят смотрите на бонусы и растущий эквити: у людей появились деньги. Пессимитсы отвечают, эти деньги они тратят на покрытие долга. И не стоит забывать про 10% безработицу. Дальше пытаются гадать на кофейной гуще типа продаж мебели или выручке за первые две недели ноября. Но пока выходит что продажи будут примерно в ровень с прошлогодними.

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