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Supply is there, so if apartments are priced at market level, they are selling. If they're priced above market, they're not even getting shown.


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The houses that are priced properly are selling. We have a market that's pretty much in balance.
CHRISTOPHER ARMSTRONG These are trends we see continue in the market with the shift to lower-priced machines; the higher-p...
JEFFREY HEWITT The true worst-case scenarios are not even close to priced in this market yet.
KEVIN KERR Buyers are looking for a deal. It does not necessarily mean there are any deals out there. A well-pr...
DAVID KERR There's no question the market got overheated, ... It's just getting more rationally priced.
PAUL MCENTIRE Houses that are priced right are still selling.
CHRISTOPHER ARMSTRONG The Scion proved that there is still a market for low-priced cars that are still cool and hip.
KARL BRAUER There's no question that it has boosted the market. People can't get anything in Stratford now, exce...
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CELIA CHEN The market has already priced in an imminent move.
TAKAHIDE KIUCHI The consequences that cause people to do their best every day occur every day. Delayed rewards are f...
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MARKUS ILG Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very e...
LILY COLLINS They took a sharper run up in prices, so it makes sense that there's a decrease there. Some people h...
ALAN GIN Market sentiment is turning quite upbeat on gains in high-priced stocks.
DANIEL LIU There is clearly a shift in sentiment. The market had already priced in too much bad news.
MIKE MCGLONE theyre missing whole streets.
SAM WRIGHT It all starts with the price of the land. Show me another market that is selling land for $700,000 a...
DENNIS SMITH Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore.
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PAUL GINSBURG Although no serious figures on the results of rationing should appear in the next month or two, the ...
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JASON TEH Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers...
EDMUND PHELPS If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
NORMAN RALPH AUGUSTINE If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
NORMAN AUGUSTINE Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr...
JIM MORRISON A lot of the nervousness has already been priced in. Unless there is a smoking gun, the market will ...
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JOE LAVORGNA The market had already priced in a 50-basis-point cut by the Fed.
FRANCISCO RIVERO They are definitely priced to sell.
KAREN TILLER We're selling just as many houses that are higher priced. It looks pretty healthy to me.
DON PICKETT There are two reasons why the pick-up in activity this spring may not turn out to be strong. Firstly...
GREG FUZESI The (stock) market is used to these periodic outbursts of the Left and has priced it in.
ABHEEK BARUA The market is starting to price out some of the rate increases that have been priced in.
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JAIMIE ROSS A short-term pop in dividend stocks is not likely. The market has re-priced these stocks over the pa...
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THEODOR ADORNO Even though they'll be value priced, they'll still carry hefty profit margins. They'll have better f...
JOE PHILLIPPI Put me in charge of the project, I'll build them without putting in market-priced homes.
JEFF ALEXANDER People are thinking he's going to drive funds higher than is currently priced into the market. He's ...
ALAN ROSE People are thinking he's going to drive funds higher than is currently priced into the market. He's ...
ALAN DE ROSE I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra...
JOHN SUNUNU There are 39 units and the homes do not stay for sale very long, unless they are priced too high.
JOYCE FROST If they're nice and they're reasonably priced, they sell quick.
CHRISTINE PARKER I know there is a market out there for this guitar, and I want to keep it reasonably priced so a lot...
TONY VILLALBA Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those ap...
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CYRIL BEUZIT They (multinationals) are betting on the long term. The market potential is still there, even though...
LIANG MINGCHAO If you look at the universe of the 7,000 or so stocks that are priced this way, most of them you wou...
HARRY EISENBERG Governments have shown that if there is a substantial supply risk they are willing to act, and act q...
GARY ROSS However, I don't see a dramatic drop ahead. The market had already priced in the rate increase.
GERARDO COPCA I don't think he's going to deliver something different from what the market has already priced in.
JASON DAW The market is not priced for oil prices at record highs and rising interest rates and slowing earnin...
JEFFREY SAUT A move up to 3.25 percent is not yet fully priced into the market. While our official call remains f...
ELGA BARTSCH I probably get five calls a day from people who cannot find a place that they can afford to live ......
JUDY SWANSON They're priced as if there's a recession.
JAMES PIZZO This market really can take off if the supply is there to match it.
RHODA ALEXANDER But with the market depreciating so much, even those are getting hit.
GERARD CRONIN It does again reinforce the concern that Nokia does very well at the end of the market, but is still...
MARK DAVIES Users of high-priced cards should pay high charges if they want their frequent flier miles and other...
GARY FRIEDMAN It's a rapidly tightening market. If we have a normal winter, there is not enough supply being made ...
DAVID KNAPP The frenzied part of this real estate cycle is behind us and what we're seeing so far is a normalizi...
MARSHALL PRENTICE Inflation is still something to keep an eye on, ... The market has priced in a slowdown but if we do...
BILL DAVISON Two weeks ago, I put a home on the market that was priced on the low side of the three most recent c...
DOLLY RIEGERT WOODRUFF The numbers confirm the perspective that the market has already priced in -- that the Fed will move ...
MARIA FIORINI RAMIREZ The market is just waiting for the outcome of the meeting at this point, but the trend is to assume ...
ISABEL LEMOS Numbers like these are a bit of a reality check coming just ahead of the reporting season. Market ha...
HELEN SPENCER That's the part of the market that's getting whacked. Even if the ads are good, it's not clear that ...
ERIC SHEPARD If it's priced right, even if the quality is somewhat less than other makes, they'd consider buying ...
ART SPINELLA If there is a big supply and the market is flooded, hay won't sell for as much.
GREG MANN My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the year...
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER On the surface that may sound dear. But when compared with what people are selling properties for in...
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GEORGE CONDON Bonds in the airline sector have been priced with bankruptcy as a real possibility since the spring,...
BRIAN REYNOLDS Again the market foolishly priced in all the upside, all the blue sky on day one ... all on the back...
ARTHUR LIM The market is building a supply concession. The market is not doing much more than supply-based trad...
JASON EVANS Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.
MARK PERVAN We are finally starting to come to those stocks that haven't given up ground yet. This is the first ...
CHARLES PRADILLA I think the market has almost fully priced in now the likelihood of a shift in policy either in Marc...
YASUHISA ISHIDA If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
BARBARA CORCORAN The DRAM market will be quite good this year, if you look at the supply side.
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ERIC ALLMAN If you're exporting, you're almost in a quarantined area from the economy and the legal system. Sell...
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CHARLES KAPLAN When the broad market gets a cold like this, the IPO market gets pneumonia, ... You really have to l...
CHARLES KAPLAN Gateway is still a solid market. Homes are actually selling well.
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BERND KARSTEDT Everybody had feared worse than what Apple and Intel delivered. The market had priced in a tough qua...
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JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ...
JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t...
JONATHAN RABAN I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib...
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte...
JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r...
JONATHAN EDWARDS Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT