Virtually every market was down last year, but a close look at the numbers reveals that some markets have way outperformed others during the last four years and are likely to continue to do so this year.
The fundamentals are so poor in many of these markets that they are likely to be among the last to recover from the national housing downturn. The weakest markets for 2009 are comprised primarily of bust markets in Florida and California, along with a few rust-belt cities with economic difficulties.
You’ve seen the 15 healthiest and the 15 weakest, now see the remaining markets on our list of the top 75 local housing markets, ranked from healthiest to weakest.
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Boyce Thompson is editorial director of the BUILDER group of magazines published by Hanley Wood. Drawing on his years of experience covering home building, architecture, and retailing, Boyce tackles diverse and far-ranging industry topics in his twice-weekly blog.
The single-family home building market appears poised for recovery soon. But it will be at least a year before any meaningful recovery occurs in the multifamily sector of the industry. That was the consensus that emerged from MFE 2009, a conference for apartment executives put on by our sister magazine MFE in Las Vegas last week.
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