It can definitely cause prices to go down too, but it's not a foregone conclusion, and difficult to predict, IMHO - especially the market's reaction to what's going on.

Dollar.Overseas investors own over half of the marketable U.S. government debt, and with the falling value of the dollar, dollar investors are looking for a higher risk adjusted rate of return.As Brazil, Russia, China and India Grow at their current economic pace, the supply of commodities tightens up, and the cost continues to rise for wheat, corn, oil, gold, silver…the list goes on.Our Medicare hospital insurance trust fund is predicted to be depleted in 2020.

I am also open to any other advice/tools that can be used to evaluate and possibly predict the swings of the RE market(s).Also, if anyone knows of any specific areas poised for high growth (with supporting data) within the next few years please let me know.Thanks!

One broker there predicts a 7% decline in the nest year.

You are looking at military bases because of predictable and stable employment over the long term.

The answer I would predict you will get most unanimously on here would be that the high maintenance/hoa fees and the slow appreciation of condos make investing in them a bad (or at least risky) idea.

Predicting which one it's going to be is the hard part.

It's not easy to predict which ones will close.

Four years ago I predicted they would be higher now than then.

I know I'm not planning to sell anytime soon but we can't predict the future so I still factor in the ease of liquidation.I also find that the amount of work that I have to put in buying and maintaining a 4 plex is pretty much the same as a 14 plex.