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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Moominoid who wrote (62609)4/23/2005 9:22:51 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
<Capital gains on housing is just inflation >

It can also be supply and demand as certain residential areas become more popular and prices rise. People can bank the profits by selling, moving to a cheaper area and living on the cash difference.

New Zealand is currently attracting a lot of wealthy immigrants who want a nice place to live. That pushes prices up because they aren't making any more land where those people want to live.

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