How keen are households to buy homes?

The share of US households who think that now is a good time to buy a home is close to previous highs, but the share of households who plan to buy in the near future is more subdued. The contrast between these two surveys supports the idea that there is a store of pent-up demand and that credit conditions are acting as brake on the recovery in active housing demand.


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