It really is…Reporters in bubble towns really need a realtor license and MLS access, so they can do their own research. This is too important. Instead, they rely on Dataquick.

OTOH, if I were a seller, I would be very grateful of the optimistic slant given by the median and the U-T article. I was sweating bullets last January, while the headlines were still screaming “Real Estate is UP Again”. If I were a seller and the U-T was publishing facts, and giving us the real story inside the median, I wouldn’t be able to sleep. I’d be too worried that my buyers would catch on to the ponzi scheme and bail…