Different data fuels housing health speculation

What, then, to make of the housing market’s health? Is it ill or thriving or somewhere in the middle, like a case of the sniffles that goes away after a while? Economists, government bureaucrats, real estate analysts, brokers everyone has his or her opinion, but one thing seems to have become conventional wisdom since the summer: The housing market is slowing down and the question now is by how much. more [WSJ] and more [NYT]