when do you think real estate will go back up again?

Question

Realty Experts? What do you think will happen to real estate market in the next few years?

Im in San Diego, California

Answer 1

Where are you? Remember location, location, location.

Answer 2

Very soon. Inflation has been in the negatives or very close to it...which means recession. Recession will cause a lower intrest rates (which are still pretty low, historically) With the lower prices of real estate investors will begin to take their money out of the stock market and put it in or back into real estate.

Also In many places the prices have dropped so much many people who couldn't buy before will be able to do so.

Answer 3

I think it'll start going back up spring of 2007. All these negative predictions are just scaring everybody. Nobody knows whats going to happen. Just like the predicted computer crash in 2000 and other predictions that never happened. Everyone should just stay in the game, people are going to continue buying houses, today, tomorrow and in the future!! Read this site there are lot of people wanting to buy Real Estate........ I guess they haven't heard the "The News"..

SPRING OF 2007 REAL ESTATE WILL START GOING UP!

Answer 4

Although I am not an expert, I understand that real estate goes up and down in 3-5 year cycles. We have been in a trough in the Northeast for well over a year now so in another two years or so there will be another boom.

Answer 5

Probably no where near what we were seeing. I personally am hoping the change begins this fall, so that Spring sales are brisk again. I think you will see a moderation in equity increases. Here in the Twin Cities, it is a buyers market and they have the upper hand and seller's are contributing to make the sale. I would love to have Joan Steffan from HGTV come and sit in my model home for a day! Anyone looking to buy or sale in the TC area, please call me 651-268-1342

Answer 6

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Answer 7

U.S. housing market is going through the first phase of cool down and continues to slump. This cycle may take a few years.

Answer 8

Depends upon where you are and where it hits bottom. I think in the bleeding edge places, you're looking at Spring 2008 for a recovery, but that could be moved up if they hit a lower bottom than I expect.

Answer 9

Depends on where you live.

The market is astronomically booming where I am now, but by the sounds of your question, not where you are.

Answer 10

Real Estate
Getting Real About the Real Estate Bubble
Fortune on CNNMoney.com
By Shawn Tully

Fortune's Shawn Tully dispels four myths about the future of home prices.

For the past five years, the housing bulls have been trotting out one rational-sounding argument after another to explain why the boom made perfect economic sense.

Forget about a crash, they assured homeowners. Expect a "soft landing" where your three-bedroom colonial in Larchmont or Larkspur not only holds onto its huge price gains, but keeps appreciating at a "normal," "sustainable" rate of 6 percent or so into the sunset.

Americans wanted to believe, and they did. Now, the giant popping noise you're hearing is the sound of yesterday's myths exploding like balloons pumped up with too much hot air.

The newest sign that the myth-makers were spectacularly wrong is the data on existing home sales for July. Nationwide, median prices rose .9 percent.

But even that meager number masks the real story. Prices actually fell where housing is most vulnerable, in the bubble markets in the West and Northeast. In the Northeast, they dropped 2.1 percent from July of 2005, at the same time prices nationwide rose around 3 percent, meaning that houses lost over 5 percent of their value adjusted for inflation.

Homeowners just saw their wealth shrink, by a lot. The numbers will only get worse. It's time to examine the clichés that the "experts" - chiefly analysts and economists from realtors and mortgage associations - used to convince Americans that what they're seeing now could never happen. Here are the four great housing myths - and why they never made much sense in the first place.

Myth #1: As long as job growth is strong, prices can't go down

You can almost forgive the bulls for stumbling over this one. In past housing recessions, prices fell sharply in markets with severe job losses, like Texas in the mid-80s and Boston in the early 90s.

But the argument that prices can't fall in a good job market doesn't make economic sense: To be sure, a strong employment picture helps demand. But if far more houses are pouring onto the market than can be absorbed by households lured by the new jobs, and if the sellers are pressured to sell, prices will fall.

That's precisely what's happening now in good job markets such as San Diego and Northern Virginia. In this boom, prices soared to such extraordinary levels that builders kept churning out new homes, and owners of existing houses threw a record number of units on the market to cash out. The supply grew so fast that demand, even in strong job markets, simply couldn't keep up.

As usual, for the believers, it's always easier to fall back on a cliché than read the warning signs.

Myth #2: The builders learned their lesson in the last downturn. They won't swamp the market with new houses when the market turns

You might call this the OPEC theory of homebuilders. The idea was that the builders wouldn't take a chance by building lots of unsold, "spec" units that could clog the market in a downturn. They had supposedly absorbed hard-won discipline from their excessive building in past downturns.

Well, it hasn't turned out that way. Builders are still pouring out near-record numbers of new homes as sales decline, assuring a further fall in prices. "Buyers" are walking away from deposits on houses that were supposedly pre-sold, forcing developers to throw them back on the market at a discount.

The problem is that even now, margins on new homes are still pretty good, though well below the levels of a year ago. As a result, builders will just keep building until those big margins evaporate. High prices are sewing the seeds of their own demise. They always do.

Myth #3: Low interest rates will keep values rising, or at the very least, put a floor under prices

What really matters for all assets, whether it's houses, stocks or bonds, is real interest rates - in other words, nominal rates after subtracting inflation. And real rates fell sharply starting in 2001. That caused a legitimate, one-time increase in housing prices.

The rub is that prices rose far more than could ever be justified by declining mortgage rates. That's where the bubble kicked in. Today's relatively low rates are not, and never were, a reason why prices would keep rising. Once real rates drop and stabilize, the impetus goes away - again, the gain is a one-time, not a recurring, phenomenon.

Today, real 10-year rates are still extremely low. They have nowhere to go but up. When the one-time gain of 2001-2004 reverses, housing prices could take a further hit.

By the way, a decline in rates due to a fall in inflation isn't the boom to real estate it's advertised to be. Sure, rates go down, but workers also receive lower raises. So the fall in rates turns out to be a wash. As for what matters - real rates - what goes down later goes up, and housing prices go in the other direction, namely south.

Myth #4: Restriction on development in the suburbs ensures low supply, and guarantees rising prices

This argument ignores that the tough zoning laws and anti-development fervor have been a feature of America's tony towns since the early 1970s. The "not in my town" phenomenon is nothing new.

Sure, it's still difficult to get new building permits in suburbs of New Jersey, New York, Washington, Seattle and San Francisco. But America's housing market is extremely fluid. People move farther from job centers, and commute longer hours, to get bargains where housing is plentiful. Then the jobs move to the areas with the cheap houses. People in their 50s and 60s cash out early in San Diego and buy a bigger house for half the money in Texas or South Carolina.

And the cities are just as enthusiastic about developing blighted areas with new, tax-paying high-rises as the suburbs are slamming the door. In the New York area, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Hoboken - and even Manhattan - are sprouting more new housing than in decades, despite a job market that's hardly robust.

A year ago, the reigning cliché was that real estate had entered a new world of "no supply." Now, a record 3.85 million homes are up for sale, and buyers are getting scarce.

No, the world hasn't changed. And the myths haven't changed either. Next time, don't believe them.