A drop in value of 25% would wipe out most speculative buyers.
The author points out that less than 1% of real estate is resold in less than
one year. Seeing as how one has to occupy a house for TWO years in order to avoid paying capital gains on the appreciation, you reckon there's some motivation to hold onto real estate for more than a year?
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