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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: damainman who wrote (33084)	6/11/2005 12:17:00 AM
From: X Y Zebra	Respond to of 306849

But real estate OWNERS can, especially given their recent high levels of leverage..... sure... particularly the dumb ones... all the better... since the real estate shall remain at somehow reduced prices... but still with: 1. some value left over (at the time of such event) 2. with potential for future appreciation for the new buyer(depending on many other circumstances). look... i do not deny that in certain areas recent buyers will get their heads handed over... but such markets will NOT make a dent on markets driven by more solid demographics... and in my eyes it is demographics the main reason that the healthier markets are sound... yes, interest rates do help and as we have seen already.... i believe that rates are somehow range bound (and it is not that they are 10, 11, or 12 %... so... anyway... watch out it is a bubble and it will explode... blah, blah, blah