Subject: Re: [Homestead] Wastewater costs 340 times Colorado River water
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:50:47 EST
I
> The wastewater auction bidders will be subdivision developers. Tell
> me again about that real estate bubble.
>
Sure, be glad to:
"In once hot markets like Boston are now down by more than 10 percent from
their high point. The same goes for parts of the Phoenix area, where the
number
of homes on the market has more than doubled to 45,000 since last October."
"National housing prices took a record fall in September as the pace of sales
skidded for the sixth consecutive month. The median price for an existing
home nationwide -- including single-family houses, condos and co-ops --
dropped
2.2 percent"
" For example, a major home builder has told me that the share of unsold
homes has topped 80 percent in some of the new subdivisions around Phoenix
and Las
Vegas, which he labeled the new "ghost towns" of the West. "
Since the date of the first blurb linked above, it is now reported that there
are 54,000 unsold homes on the market in the Phonenix area - existing
turn-key homes, not contracts or under development. If you wanted to make
sure you
were getting the home in the Phoenix area and so wanted to take a look at
every
house for sale there, if you saw two houses an hour, eight hours a day, seven
days a week, it would take you nearly 9 1/2 years to see them all.
Those who are in denial about the historic housing melt down under way remind
me of the Black Knight in Monty Python's Holy Grail when Arthur cut off both
arms and legs and the knight taunts, "It's only a flesh wound, I've had
worse!"