Archive for the ‘The Economy’ Category
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Improving the General Economy Will Improve the Real Estate Markets
It doesn’t take an economics guru, like Milton Friedman, to understand, that the general economy must improve before the real estate markets are able to improve. It naturally occurs, that when general economic conditions are sinking deeper into negative territory (as evidenced by many factors including a national unemployment rate of 9.8% and rising), that [...]
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News Reports of Changes in Real Estate Values Highly Misleading
Every month, the national media trot out a few statistics on what they say are the changes in the value of homes in the United States. Worse than the irresponsible reporting of data that is so generalized that it has no real meaning, is that most homeowners and buyers across the country rely upon these [...]
