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New construction condos in Boston (BB, SE, BH) start about $1300 / sf.

I agree that if there's a bust, the working class communities will see the biggest
price correction.
The desireable towns didn't get that big price drop everyone was hoping for 8 years ago, and I suspect it won't happen during the next downturn.

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Why this time may be different....but, no one really knows

ITS ALL ABOUT RATES!


Here is a great graphic on San Diego real estate vs mortgage rates - yes, its not just Boston area real estate that has been going up thanks to 3% Mortgage rates

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The Fed is again hinting it will raise interest rates…but maybe not based on their past history...25% which is not very much. Will this affect prices, inventory, sales? I guess we'll know soon with the "spring market" upon us.

It seems the mantra in the press is that higher prices are somehow a good thing, yeah, for sellers and people who got "in" many years ago.

Savers will continue to be punished as the rate increase of .25% will take a long time (if ever) to be reflected in bank savings accounts. There is no reward for being responsible and staying out of debt.

So happy we bailed out the big banks after 2008 so they certainly don't have to suffer! Let the little guy suffer a bit longer I guess!

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Sorry, that should say 0.25%.

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We will NOT see dramatic rate up hike, because we are still deeply in debt as a nation, and we are still can not stop borrowing from other nations.

FED will raise the rate 3 or 4 times, with minimum amount each time. And then that will be it.

What Trump try to do currently to reverse U.S. as in debt nation are the following:

1. In stead of being the world's policeman, U.S. will become the world's biggest weapon merchant. By doing so, we cut cost from deploying and maintaining solders oversea, and we increase profit by selling products made in U.S.A. Awesome plan I have to say!

2. Revert obamacare, cut healthcare benefit from senior and low income groups. Another cost cutting move. It is inhuman, but who care about the old and poor?

3. Lower tax for big companies, hoping more investing/hiring activities from top down. This is kind of reminds me who caused the financial meltdown back in 2008 in the first place. Are those the same groups will be rewarded again?

4. Big infrastructure rebuilt. Which is putting money within the country, cause more jobs and better country in the long run. He is learning from China of this. Another great idea I think. The best of all is, his family business will be greatly benefited from it.

The hopeful plan is, once these 4 major steps take affect in coming years, which should effectively lowering our national debt to certain level, then we are ready to manipulate rate upward for channel in all the fortunes from the world. This will take years.

There is always a possibility of black swan event that could cause rate hike much sooner and much higher. I already mentioned before in other posts, this black swan must related to the credibility of American dollar. In order to protect the credibility of the green back, and if that meant hiking rate and destroying the housing market, so be it.

For now, we seat back, Invest some in military, infrastructure, oil; and we wait.

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I do think Trump's plans will forestall a recession, but it will explode the national debt.

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Treasuries are the national debt, and they are also the benchmark for interest rates. By the law of supply and demand, if you offer more of something, the price falls. Offering more Treasuries (increasing the debt) should lead to lower prices (relative to where they would have been), and lower prices necessarily mean higher yields / interest.

I would guess that the last nine years saw demand for US debt grow faster than supply, hence falling rates / rising prices. Lower rates were not a result of higher debt - lower rates occurred in spite of it, and for separate reasons. My point is, rates would have been even lower had the national debt not increased.

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