Shiller: ‘Not Ready Yet’ to Call Housing Bottom

It would take at least a year of price increases to call a recovery in the housing market, Yale University economist and housing expert Robert Shiller said Tuesday on CNBC.

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“There are a lot of positive indicators, but I think people tend to overreact to these. And if you look at the trend, which has been down since 2006, it’s a pretty strong trend that we have to see reversed. I might call it later this year, that we’ve reached the bottom, but I’m not ready yet,” he said on “Fast Money.”

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“The question is will this continue through the fall and the winter. We’ll wait and see,” he said. “I believe in momentum in the housing market. It looks like upward momentum, but I think it’s too soon to call.”

Shiller noted that improvement in the market has been seasonal so far and said that “at least a solid year of price increases,” as well as other factors, would be needed to call the bottom.

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“It’s starting to look better, I have to admit,” he said. “For someone who wants to buy a home now, you also have to factor in that mortgage rates are at record lows, so I’m not telling people not to buy a house.”

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