Harvard details record 2004 prices, sales.(INDUSTRY UPDATES)(Brief Article)

Harvard researchers estimated the current housing boom has lasted for 13 consecutive years, the longest period since 1970. According to the State of the Nation's Housing 2005, authored by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, home ownership hit an all-time high of 69 percent last year. And new home demand is on track to total as many as 20 million units between now and the year 2015 with the majority of those homes being built in …