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Old 01-05-2011, 07:53 PM
 
Location: Royal Oak, MI
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I've just got a single simple question. I've been looking at some neighborhood comparisons and home appreciation rates stuck out to me. I'm not exactly sure how to even compare them.

The question is, if you have a hypothetical neighborhood where home appreciation rates are high, is it improving?
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Old 01-06-2011, 07:26 AM
 
Location: Just south of Denver since 1989
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Past performance is only one indicator of future performance.

Be careful of hitching your star to only one index.
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Old 01-06-2011, 11:22 AM
 
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I would think there could be many possibilities:

Neighborhood is improving.

Neighborhood is undergoing massive transition as old "lifers" sell houses and new residents (willing / able to pay more) moving in

Lots of flip activities (flippers flipping to other flippers, even)...

Already "good" neighborhood attracting even more interest and rising further.

Very depressed neighborhood attracting a lot of speculation, and having some appreciation, but character of neighborhood itself not really changing (minority of rehabbers not enough to change entire neighborhood).

So.. yeah, I'd look at a lot of different factors, not just appreciation...
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