Five years and 16 million foreclosures after the 2008 housing crash, most Americans have not lost faith in real estate. In a survey this summer of more than 2,000 adults by home buyer website Trulia, 61 percent of respondents predicted that prices in their local market would rise next year, 58 percent thought prices would
“EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT HOUSING IS FLASHING GREEN”
Home prices finally hit a bottom in 2012. So will 2013 be the year of recovery or relapse? Potential buyers now have something they haven’t had in a long time: urgency (save for a few months when the government was paying people to buy homes with a first-time home-buyer tax credit). This next year will