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The Market Domino Effect: Staying Ahead of the Curve

.... too many spelling errors in this article.

How Far Will House Prices Fall? Implications From the Latest WSJ Survey

Agreed. Prices in Bay Area definitely need to fall more than half to make renting anywhere close to mortgage. Inflation is just about the only humane way to do it - sort of like killing a frog by slowing turning the heat up.

How Will the Housing Crisis End?

Nobody can time a bottom or a peak. Everytime I feel tempted to time the market, I remind myself how many geniuses failed at this task.

I like the sentiment idea that somebody mentioned before: when nobody wants to buy real estate because "all it does it lose money" we are near a bottom. Right now, we are still in the "there are a lot of great deals out there" stage - not quite there yet.