“A report this week from Barclays downgrading the stocks of several of the nation’s largest public home builders drew quick contest from the National Association of Home Builders, but not for the main premise. The Barclays report centered largely on, “stretched” stock valuations, but it also cited a secondary concern about new home prices.
“New home prices have dramatically outpaced existing home prices, and the reason for that is because you have a very constructed mortgage market today. The only people who can buy are people who are very well off, so that’s created a positive mix shift,” noted Barclay’s analyst Stephen Kim in an interview on CNBC’s “Street Signs.” …”
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