Now, we report the Realtors' numbers, statistics from the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, RealtyTrac foreclosure rates and information from other sources.
They don't always mesh exactly — surprise! — but they agree that 1., Oklahoma prices have been increasing a little year over year, as national numbers have been dropping a lot, and 2., Oklahoma City prices slipped a tiny bit in the first quarter of this year, as the bottom was falling out nationally.
Those are the stats. What they mean, and what the future has in store, is the talk of kitchen tables, bars, Sunday school classrooms and the Internet.
I read you right, then. Or, as my wife would say, “I smelled what you were steppin’ in.”
It would simplify things for me immensely if I quit stepping in stuff, but that too falls under “such is life.”
Nice to see Richard following up with more to back up his stance. All we can do is report the real stuff and let people make their own determinations from there, regardless of how sideways they may be. The ones with enough intelligence to investigate for themselves, rather than just buying what’s being sold, are the ones who will see the real truth, and the sheep will eventually come around, once they’ve missed the boat of real opportunity.
Most of the time, if there’s a bandwagon, I’m not on it; the fact that I titled my piece “Inexplicable failure to suck” should have been an indication that I wasn’t buying into the gloom-and-doom scenario. (And why would I? I own a house in this town, and I can think of no reason why I should want to badmouth the marketplace. At the very least, I’d like someone to buy the one unoccupied house on my block.) Not everyone agrees with my stance, but such is life.