Re:Secondary shops flooded with unicorn sellers
by jonknee on Friday February 19, 2016 @08:37PM
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That very much depends on where you live. It wasn't that bad in the Bay Area because there wasn't a building boom, but in places that there was a boom the prices climbed very quickly and indeed collapsed even more quickly. Las Vegas, Phoenix, Miami and other markets were all hit very hard (60% or so).
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Re:Secondary shops flooded with unicorn sellers
by prostoalex on Friday February 19, 2016 @11:57PM
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Housing markets are kinda weird in a way - when hearing bad news about the economy, people don't immediately get on the phone with a real estate broker and yell to "Sell! Sell! Sell!"
For primary residences most are driven by loss aversion ("I'll sell it when it comes back to the price I paid for it, I don't want to lock in my losses, and this is still a decent place to live").
You're right that some markets experienced steeper declines than others, and the ones that descended quicker were highly leveraged through 0% down, or interest-only (or both) loans. Post-2008 lending scene has been much more restrictive, I can't imagine a lot of people being highly leveraged at the moment.