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The top-ten most overvalued real estate markets: most of them in California

Tuesday, 23 December 2008 13:05 Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 December 2008 13:05 Written by Eric Garland 0 Comments

Last night, California said it was going out of business. I don’t know if this means it’s going to be sold back to the Aztecs or what. I suspect it will mean that the health care industry will be transformed since the states will not be able to foot the bill for their obligations.

Also last night, somebody sent me this link to Forbes top ten worst real estate markets. EIGHT of them are in California. The average projected drop in value is around 25%. A connection?

Of course, the tenth most overvalued market is mine in Washington DC. But then again if you read this blog, you knew that. I think some of that overvalue might be from people selling their apartments for $10,000 for the coming inauguration. We’ll see.

Tags:  bubbles, California, Real Estate
This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 at 1:05 pm and is filed under Real Estate. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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