Artificially tampering with a market driven economy simply does not work.    

If you force a capitalization rate as a demanded return you have one valid, but artificial variable.The only other known value is the present value if you accept the asking price to begin with.

It sounds like the goal was to artificially inflate the sale price so that the banks "80% loan" would actually cover closer to 90% of the sale price.

Because so many people had access to credit (the demand was very high compared to a normal supply of houses), values rose to artificially high levels.

Artificial market inflation is not anyone's friend.

I don't see any good reason why the rest of the nation should be stuck subsidizing their crappy property policy that artificially inflated prices and made the whole thing into a casino in years past.

Do you also believe it’s because of the plan of the big banks to starve the market and artificially drive up prices in Q1?

Rents and expenses are not directly correlated, and any attempt to artificially correlate them through percentages is mental laziness that will result in inaccurate estimates.

I thought about subscribing to Prospect Master but subscriptions are closed right now due to the operator of the platform insisting using artificial scarcity as a sales tactic.

Builders give all kinds of credits and free upgrade packages, to keep their initial prices artificially high, for future sales comp.s.