I am in the largest producing real estate office in Indianapolis and I regularly train new agents including all the ones that go to BOLD.

There is a very visible distinction once you cross the tracks over city lines driving down Green Ave. 

I've worked for Pulte here(think they are still top 5 largest builder) and didn't like it. 

Scott, what you are asking for can be broken down into two distinct components (a) an analytical methodology for evaluating markets and (b) the data that you will apply to the methodology to arrive at your conclusions.The data is the easy part.

Carol Jones built one of the largest real estate sales (#2 at one time) companies in the state and is nationally recognized as a leading business woman...and a good family friend for about 40 years..

Japan is renown as "the land of no capital gain" since their bubble burst in the early nineties, but has one of the world's largest, most stable economies, and spectacular cashflow.

My post points out there is a distinction between Yield, which is interest income and potential Gain from the discount.

To not point to the distinction amongst assets is, I would argue, is an annoyance and deceptive practice to some extent.

The largest independently owned real estate company in the US is located in my market (Washington, DC metro).

Account Closed - yeah I get the distinct impression that a buy and hold strategy in the SF East Bay makes no sense right now for SFH.