18 Quotes by Michael Carliner

We're going to have a lot of additional demand for materials, both in the cleanup process and the repair process and going forward in rebuilding.

We had been predicting home price increases would slow down. Now they won't slow as quickly.

Basically, that's saying that it's unchanged. We were doing well, not as well as last year, but we're doing well, and this says we're still doing well,

I think we're about to face a glut. There's been a tremendous surge of condo construction and also condo conversions over the past couple of years.

Rebuilding occurred over years, just in the normal course of events -- I don't think we'll have a building surge here.

We had expected to see a slowdown, and this confirms it.

When prices go up, buyers say, 'Look how much money I would have saved if I bought last year, and if I don't buy now, I won't be able a new home next year,'

With clean water, if you submerge a house for a week, it's not going to be livable anymore. It would be very difficult to get those contaminants out of the houses.

Excluding homes that haven't been started, the months' supply is historically low.