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To: JDW11235
For the most part, houses across the board need to drop about another 50%, maybe even more...

The house are already selling at half the cost it would take to build them. That is way under a normal selling price.

And if they drop any more they will be free. Housing prices here are way, way, way down. Prices are now below what they were before the housing boom even started, lower than they were 15 years ago.

40 posted on 05/29/2011 7:43:49 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

“The house are already selling at half the cost it would take to build them.”

Due to labor, union labor, or materials? Already built houses should not (as history has shown) appreciate, they haven’t much for a 100 years of 116 year history (the last years being the boom) when inflation is adjusted out. Also, unless vast improvements are made, historically older houses depreciate with age, so they should be lower than the price to build new anyway.

There are of course outliers, such as a highly desirable area, where people are actually moving to, in response to something local, which would increase demand, but that’s not the standard, it’s the exception.

“That is way under a normal selling price.”

Not historically. But in the last 50 years as the dollar has been dropping in value, the nominal price has been increasing, but with inflation ruled out, houses don’t appreciate just by existing. As they age they are worth less, by the average price of an existing “standard” house on the market doesn’t change much in price.


50 posted on 05/30/2011 12:51:29 AM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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