Will the housing market give consumers a boost?

Past housing market upswings have all coincided with above-average rates of consumer spending growth. But it is easy to overstate the strength of the direct linkages between the two. Therefore, unless we have under-estimated the likely strength of income and employment growth, we doubt that the current recovery in the housing market will give a material boost to consumer spending.

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