Closings and median prices up along with inventory that represents a relative shortage definitely doesn't line up with a cool down.An additional indicator to consider is that real estate direct-buy proptech companies such as REX, Knock, Opendoor, Offerpad, and Zillow (to name a few) have already raised $1.9 Billion in investor funding this year.

Banks borrowed, as is TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS, $632 billion after the great recession (primarily 2008-2010) and paid back $739 billion.

Out of curiosity, I pulled a quick UBPR report (on ffiec.gov), and they have upwards of 40 billion in assets and 10 million in OREO.

Government bailouts to farmers of $12 billion in 2018 and $15 billion announced a few weeks ago are a band-aid.

See the original at: https://thinkrealty.com/going-for-billions/

I think damages from Northridge were about $20 billion.

Pathetic I seriously think the people behind the hype purchased billions in gold then hired PR firms to drive up demand so they can sell it.

Seems to me if a seller is losing $30,000 or more going with Opendoor instead of listing in the MLS, they are either not good at math, very desperate or they really, really, really hate the home selling experience.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/technology/next...Some excerpts:  Sept. 27, 2018"Last year, real estate tech start-ups raised $3.4 billion in funding, a fivefold increase from 2013, according to the start-up data provider CB Insights.

There are a billion threads on if you need a LLC or not.

The Asheville CVB and TDA has all the data on this, it's available if you contact them.One interesting trend I remember from 2017 is of the 1.9 billion or so tourism $$ generated in the area that year, the percentage of the pie spent on lodging was decreasing, year to year.