Millions upon millions of jobs lost "forever" ("exported" to the "third world"), more millions lost half or more of their retirement accounts, creditors slashed and burned consumer credit to the point where, by the banksters' own numbers, some 74% of Americans wound up with "bad" credit (it was only 47% before they did that), ...Now, add in the knee-jerk responses in the lending industry and you've got a situation where only the elite of formerly middle-class wage earners can even hope to qualify for new home loans.In fact, the given the current housing shortage (yet more fallout from the crash), it is ONLY the dearth of lending which is keeping home prices from launching into interstellar space by suppressing demand.

@Logan HandWhen you say that you try for a fresh list every month, do you mean suppressing your old lists?

@Charles Kennedy the West Midtown area is going through significant growth but the prices are still a little suppressed from other Intown areas.  

For a commercial project add the cost of steel (which is up as well), the cost of a fire suppression system, then factoring the Hurricane Harvey bump; development costs are already up and will continue to rise significantly.  

Additionally, the fire suppression system will need to be maintained and signed off every two years.

Sellers aren't selling because the market is suppressed.

I would think that short term prices would suppress on SFH's but from a little bit of online research about the RE effects of other hurricanes, that seems not to always be the case as demand goes up as rescue money and recovery related personnel pour into the region.     

I second what @Mike Wood stated above, and will add that building code will require a full fire suppression system for any new construction multifamily with 5 units and that will be very expensive in itself.

On forums that only track posts and not votes/karma/rep/ whatever they call it I see more of the mega-posters with 30-40,000 posts and folks tend to fall right in line with what that individual says, sometimes suppressing debate. 

The hit jogged me just a little bit and added just a couple more things to my trauma list as a child. for the next couple of months i began having memory flashbacks to memories that as kid were suppressed.