We believe that home sales bottomed out in the first quarter of this year, we expect single-family housing starts to bottom-out in the second quarter and we expect the real value of residential fixed investment ?EUR??,,????'??+ including multifamily and manufactured home production as well as improvements to residential structures ?EUR??,,????'??+ to bottom-out by year-end as the national economic recession comes to an end. ?EUR??,,????'??? Courtesy of NAHB