If you had your heloc canceled due to falling local prices reducing your assumed equity, wouldn’t you look on Realtor.com to see for yourself? If you saw your neighbor’s home for sale, wouldn’t you check his listing price?

I am in this solely to make a profit. No other reason. My clients are in it for the same reason. The BW article tells me what I have already come to know about this market.

From an educational perspective it’s newsworthy because my readership and listenership can evaluate the numbers exclusive of opinion and don’t need BS sugarcoating to see that if something walks and talks like a duck..it’s probably a friggin duck.

Our readers and listeners know what the data in the BW article means to them economically, they don’t need my “packaging of the data” to allow them to draw their own well founded conclusions.

I would hate to have to work with a clientele who did not understand the impact that those numbers mean and I bet that they as well would not want to work with a local “expert” who could not reasonably interpret and discuss the same.

I guess we serve a different readership than you.

Ines, do the semantics really matter??? C’mon, this argument as to how BW stated and had an opinion on the same data is nuts. Now that Marketwatch has said the same thing in a different way (albeit as a press release from the actual pig farmers)..does it really matter? Does it make it easier to deal with?

Tom..this data has been around for a bit and we in these markets, like Shannon above are not at all suprised but thanks for the info…BTW..avid reader!