I spent several semesters in architecture school working on these types of projects for cities around 100,000 in population and learned that all of these ideas tossed around are purely speculation.

in the last few years, the number of rentals has skyrocketed there, and the OO's realized that a lot of people with no vested interest in the property don't take care of the neighborhood, and don't participate in the community.davebt, i know a lot of people made a lot of money on interest only loans and price speculation.

You make your money when you buy, not with risky speculation.

In the height of the rush, I think it was a very viable profit venture, but with the market how it is right now and with things only looking like they are going to get worse, I would personally steer clear of speculative investing based on appreciation or new construction.

However, you have to understand the risks and know that most of these funds are investing purely on speculation.

The recent bubble was created by mortgage fraud but mostly in past and again in the future will be based on investor speculation and flipping.

"Only seven of the top 100 markets continue to be ranked as 'speculative.'"

Any reference to some sort of static price figure is simply speculation.

As to the seller getting any funds, you do realize that is totally speculation on your part?

MartinSome here pooh pooh appreciation as being speculative, but that is wrong.