Although its a Historical District and prices keep on going higher and higher, I feel like if the neighborhood is going through Artificial Inflation and hasn't turned around the crime rates enough for me to want to live there, CURRENTLY.

My argument (and I think Account Closed's) is that Freddie, Fannie, student loans, and for the most part, new car loans are all operated in artificial markets.

It keeps some rents in buildings artificially and unsustainably low while other units are fixed up and high rents for area.  

How can you really trust current statistics when they are artificially bolstered by the stimulus, PPP loans, and bonuses on unemployment?

So instead of prices dropping to an amount that can be afforded, they stay artificially high because they're propped up by UBI's influx of cash.

@Rick Santasiere  So if as other people have noted before that the price of an agent-listed home already includes the commission, that's not artificially inflating it?  

It's a terrible idea to artificially increase turnover.

You are actually using your own cash to buy artificial cash flow rather than investing your money to actually earn it's keep.When you pay down a mortgage you are only earning the prevailing interest rate.

The "trick" is to chase the artificially high residuals... if you loved the car for some reason buy a CPO version for cheaper than your lease expiration.

Right now, for example, artificial intelligence researchers at a non-profit in San Francisco make million dollar salaries.