9/07/2005

Real Estate: will it ever cool down?

I'm sure that you have noticed, especially you home buyers out there, that the cost of homes have gone up drastically over the last year. Even here in our own little Cedar City, UT, although it is not as small as it once was. Cedar City has seen many families, mostly from California and Las Vegas, move into our its area. They sale their homes there, and make a profit, move here and buy all of the homes or just build to suit. With the high demand for new homes here in Cedar City, even the smallest and oldest houses are up in the $150k range. According to www.msnbc.com the U.S. home prices increased by an average of 13% just in the last year. I sure hope that the demand for homes here slows down, because soon people are not even going to be able to afford to live here anymore and people who grew up here won't be able to stay. Maybe people from California should just stay there. Maybe. Just a thought.

2 comments:

Dr. Tufte said...

-1 on Emily's post for grammatical errors.

-1 on Logan's comment for spelling errors.

There is a folk theorem in economics that says that all benefits ultimately accrue to the holders of fixed assets. In this case, that is the (early) holders of Cedar City real estate. I'm emotionally sympathetic to people who are priced out of the market, but the trick is to be the early holder of a fixed asset somewhere else.

Unknown said...

I am a real estate agent and I am kind of surprised no one has blamed what is going on in Cedar City on me yet. :) Anyways I just wanted to point you to my investment site about Cedar City Real Estate. cedarcityrealestate.blogspot.com I have a few different options for taking advantage of the growth our city is experancing. There are many options to make good amounts of money with very little of your own money in Cedar City right now. Why wait and be left behind?