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My sense of the market’s “legs” right now, is that price appreciation will continue in the intermediate term. To me, this means approximately 3 years. Just prior to that, the investors will be selling their investment houses to the next group of bag-holders, much like Wall St. does with stock investments. By the time the system makes it possible for the “little guy”, homeowner to buy, the early investors will be looking to sell to them, thereby locking in their profits. If I was an investor, I’d do the same thing. Real estate has much more upside potential than the stock market, this is certain in the intermediate term, IMHO. The real estate market is in the early stages of an uptrend. It will not persist as long as the last one, as economic cycles are shortening due to improving communication technologies and financial “innovation” . The one caveat I’d add, that could change this scenario, is if there is a new quantum leap in technology that bring with it growth in the power of labor, i.e., labor shortages, and employers are forced by the market to increase wages. This will make for a broader wealth distribution, thereby creating a growing home buyer pool. I wouldn’t count on this, but it is certainly possible. Who saw the internet boom coming, right? Who saw the real estate bust coming? Well, actually, plenty of us.
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Apparently the comment we placed yesterday was removed. The truth is not easy to take. It is unfortunate that even First Tuesday censors the facts about what is happening to this nation.
They say “Let your voice be heard,” and then they censor it out by deleting your comments.