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The cooling real estate sector presents some attractive investment opportunities.
 
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Posted 5:25 PM EST September 03, 2006
Posted by: joecerra
So would you be dumping REIT's?

Posted 7:56 PM EST September 01, 2006
Posted by: netwrangler
When I was in college an Econ professor charted the 'housing cycle' and the 'business cycle' like you would a couple of biorhythms. His point: the two cycles had different frequencies. When peaks coincided, 'The Economy' was hot. When troughs coincided, there was a recession. When the two cycles were out of phase, peaks and troughs were muted. With today's healthy corporate earnings and somewhat deflated housing market, it seems to me that the cycles are out of phase. Soft landing, anyone?
Posted 4:04 PM EST August 31, 2006
Posted by: m9431
Interesting points and a good article. It comes down to location, location, location. Some areas have such an influx (from immigrants, etc.) that prices have declined little if at all. Other areas have already fallen significantly. Stay tuned...
Posted 3:42 PM EST August 30, 2006
Posted by: skignome
It's not the same situation as before, so many economic factors have changed. You will never see a crash in real estate prices in Boston comparable to the stock market crash. In 1991 assets from failed banks were selling at 30% of value or below. Today's prices reflect changes in income and properity in the area. There may be some slowing but no bubble bursting.
Posted 1:09 PM EST August 29, 2006
Posted by: rbegwani
Why not wait tell a few speculators commit suicide.. then we'll know it's a bottom.
Posted 11:50 AM EST August 29, 2006
Posted by: cmpcmpcmp
It's funny how everyone seems to be saying the real estate market is cooling but won't crash. Home prices in Boston have tripled in the last 7 years. This is not a bubble??? This all reminds me of the NASDAQ crash. Remember when it was 5,000? We were supposedly in a 'new ecoonomy' and it was only going higher. As it crashed, no one predicted it would go to 1,000. It's funny how some people never learn.
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