The world also needs doctors and engineers and scientists and lawyers all which get paid a lot better and offer far more stimulating work environments.

Everywhere and in every neighborhood situations happen that stimulate people to sell.

The Pearl district in Portland was a perfect example to stimulate redevelopment govmit allowed buyers of new units to fore go taxs for 10 years.. there are still a few pockets left i think in Portland that do that.now with Antifa totally ruining the downtown core..

Rates hit all time lows after the 2008 crash when the Federal Government implemented the Quantitative Easement policy to stimulate the economy by buying $500 billion in mortgage backed securities.

And how it stimulates a very large sector of our economy (real estate). 

I think the Federal govt will run the printers and stimulate to make that all unwind as slowly as possible.

“Section 1031 encourages real estate transactional activity, and in doing so, is a powerful stimulator of the U.S. economy.

Investors would no longer be able to defer tax payments on any gains greater than $500,000.1031 Exchanges originated in 1921 in order to stimulate economic growth.

Paraguay was trying to stimulate their rotten economy.

Thereby stimulating the local economy and increasing the local work force.