David Sokol, a top aide to billionaire investor Warren Buffett who oversees HomeServices of America Inc., the nation’s second-largest real estate brokerage owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, said today (Thursday) the housing market is nowhere near recovery and signs of stabilization are premature.
From Bloomberg: Sokol was among money managers who told an investment conference in New York the economy is still deteriorating and they don’t have a lot of confidence in….Obama’s economic policies.
“We’re not seeing the green shoots,” said Sokol,….“We don’t see improvement.”
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Homes in the process of foreclosure are creating a “shadow backlog” of unsold properties that will continue to hang over the market, Sokol, 52, said in a speech yesterday at the Ira W. Sohn Investment Research Conference in New York.While official statistics show a 10- to 12-month supply of unsold homes, “we believe the backlog of homes for sale is twice that.”
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“It will be mid-2011 before we see the market in balance,” with no more than a six-month backlog, he said.emphasis added
Sokol is considered a possible successor to Buffett as head of Berkshire.
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