Walter, I read someone else saying there is still a real estate bubble and because of the perfect storm of the Fed., Mers. fraud and insolvent banks that there is another leg down on real estate. I cannot print the link. The owner says no electronic reproduction without permission. I think you should look before you leap. You obviously are instinctively wary of buying now. Maybe you should listen to yourself. Another weird aspect is the stock market is up and so is gold. Usually if one is up the other is down.