By the time we get back to solid employment numbers and people are repairing their credit and building up down payments, I'm thinking it's a good bet that inflation will be in full swing, today's low fixed rates will be gone, and home prices will be shooting up again.

Historically, appreciation has just matched inflation: Link to graph That's the inflation adjusted, long term Case Shiller home price data, updated by the NY Times.

Sellers have sticky memories so assets just won’t trade if rates rise.

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks], will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson "If the American people knew tonight, exactly how the monetary and banking system worked, there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." - Abraham LincolnYou will not find a solution to this problem in the near future.

With the rising costs of heating fuel, gas, and electricity as well as increasing interest in energy-efficiency and green building in general, this has the potential for being your biggest resale points in coming years.

Your number of shares is the most important factor when calculating potential returns for stocks.Now there are two ways to make gains on these stocks.If you buy the shares at one price, they rise, then you sell the shares to someone else.If that particular company offers dividends on the shares you purchased.Dividends may have been what you are referring to in your original post and the schedule/amount of these dividends varies by company.

As we have put some time between now and the crash, I see more folks with less real estate experience trying to play with this asset class and it seems to be on the rise.

They may find a someone to rent them a house in a bad location with a bad carpet at an inflated price, but I do not rent those types of properties and I would not rent to someone with cats in this market.

MikeMike, in your view are the values in your market significantly inflated from the boom or are the values more realistic?

Great Britain, rise of coal power, not only for their industrial plants but also their navy and merchant fleet.20th-early 21st century.