Sound to me like neither of you read beyond the headline. It isn’t about being pushed out of anything, it is about jumping to conclusions based on bad data.

You should both appreciate that much. It doesn’t have to do with an agenda other than the way Real Estate is reported in the news which is what we try and clarify here. Thus the name of this blog Tucson Real Estate in The News.

There is plenty of negative news without stretching the truth to make it up. I have nothing against good solid statistics and reporting. I hear both of you complaining all the time about NAR and how they “Made things Up”

I agree it is and was bad, but was it bad because you didn’t agree with it, or bad because it is bad reporting and analysis?

If it is bad reporting and analysis based on skewed data but agrees with your position does that make it acceptable?

It shouldn’t matter if it is favorable or damaging in some sense to a position, if bad practices and misleading information is being reported it should be commented on.

When TAR changed the data reporting I’ve been the first to point out and in many instances the only one reporting how those reports are skewed.

If the RE news is bad, ok it is bad what do we do, we help buyers and sellers navigate the current market. If the RE news is good, we help buyers and sellers navigate the current market.

There are always people that have to buy or sell at a given time. They don’t have the option of waiting for something. They have to deal with whatever the market is not what they wish it was or what it used to be, but what it is at the moment and making good decisions shouldn’t be based on faulty reporting and data analysis be it positive or negative to a particular position.

You’ve gone off thread and you’re gonna make Dave angry. The topic is PARACHUTING! Sheesh! I’ll bet you didn’t even look at the picture, did you?

Dave,

What type of plane are they trying to push you out of?

watcher

Now that the money people (i.e. the banks and wall street) have tightend their standards–indeed now there are standards– there are simply not enough buyers around to pay for these artificially high prices homes here in Tucson or any other bubbleopollous. Quite simply the prices just got too high.

When there is extremely high inventory and you are a qualifed buyer, if you do choose to buy, you will be buying the nicest home, in the nicest neighborhood, with the best price. In other words, the majority of homes, which quite frankly need desperate redos because they are generally just plain ugly, will sit on the market with their unrealistic asking prices.

Yeah, I agree. Home prices are not going to fall 40% in Tucson. That is only going to happen in Bubble housing markets. Tucson only had a 150% increase in prices. Bubble markets are 155% and above, so clearly we are safe.

Furthermore, We are exempt from the laws of economics and national economic problems. We are also exempt from any negative news.

This only applies to the areas of Arizona surrounding Tucson, because the TAR numbers say so:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070906/late_mortgages.html?.v=6