The Credit Crunch Biting down – Hard
05 May 2008
The sub-prime credit market troubles has been one of the most devastating financial disasters in recent hiostory in the US and the effects are rippling around the world. Many financial banks were affected globally and they have been suffering ever since the bubble burst. The trend was forseen and the many small time to medium sized firms engaged in real estates were affected except for the condo and investment property areas. Many investment properties boomed as single house prices became so low but people who have been wanting to purchase them not having enough financial might to get them. With the foreclosure level at a high 1 million homes adding to that a couple hundred thousand more of late payments, no end to the financial market crunch is seen in the future. Developers have had to put projects on hold due to huge surplus of inventories that have yet to be turned into liquid resources that is for reinjection into their cash flows. Let us just hope that there is ehough money left for these firms to continue functioning for tommorow when the time comes for development to boom again as markets begin to recover, sometime soon.