Obviously the fed would seek to mitigate such effects on the economy with respect to rates and rate changes but with respect to buying as an actual investment rather than speculative purchases (as we saw in pre-crash behavior and property prices) and knowing you were going to be making money at the time of purchase and that the return would be acceptable to the investor(s), there is a window in which property values must fall before they exit out of view to one side or another (law of diminishing returns) and after values have left the investment window it really doesn't matter how high or low rate or values rise or fall, we as investors will not be discussing the matter anyway.

How about high risk speculative?

It's a tough game, I don't know Newark but there's areas here, like Bergen-Lafayette, that have broken hearts and bank accounts of speculators again and again.

We have alot of speculation going on.Let's put some names to the parties involved.

In terms of investing, RE is closer to speculation due to the unknowns to be faced in the future.

Hard to speculate on what a bank would do...

appreciation = speculation.

Most all of us make money doing real things, not speculating on stocks and such.

My strategy in the future will be to identify the properties and acquire assignment of non peforming notes and/liens before the county files its Certificate of Delinquency to start foreclosure against them.I have given some thought to how a lien could be placed on a property but it is speculative because I have not yet done so. 

One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons – and what I do, stock and real estate speculation.