San Diego Real Estate Predictions 2009…Watch Out For The Bull!

With the median one year San Diego home price decline approximately 30% and the San Diego residential housing market having been in a steady decline since the summer of 2005, renting has been far better than purchasing.

When one loses 30% or more home equity in one year, don't buy the old cop-out line of "in the long run the housing prices will return to their old highs." For San Diego residential real estate, this is the worst market since the great depression. Unlike a 'normal' correction or pull-back, this once in a lifetime evaporation of real estate values will not soon be forgotten. Partially because of the trauma inflicted on the public's perception of ever-escalating real estate values, will the San Diego real estate market 'snap back' anytime soon.

First the decline has to bottom and then it will most probably take a few years of base building prior to any return of meaningful appreciation. 

Naturally, at this New Year period, the glowing forecasts for a real estate recovery have already started. Will these pundits be right this time around? You'll have to draw your own conclusions. Why not see how some of the prior forecasts really paned out:

On July 14, 2008 Barron's magazine said:  "Home prices are about to bottom." Well, since than, the decline has only accelerated.

Look at this chart for a graphic example of prior real estate market forecasts:

Often when real estate values go south, it's typical to hear the industry blame the media for making the situation seem worse than the reality. The truth is, for our current home equity bust, the reality, in many cases, is far worse than the local reporting.

It seems that finally the preponderance of evidence has caused the die-hard San Diego real estate bulls to admit the folly of their over optimism.  Now a number of these same misguided forecasters are forecasting a 2009 turnaround. Perhaps that would have a faint possibility if this was a 'regular' correction. However, this huge erosion of San Diego home equity was is far from typical.

Realistically, I feel the best 2009 can bring to the San Diego housing market is some easing in the rate of depreciation with a possible beginning of a bottoming process starting late in the year or early 2010. La Jolla real estate

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talk | discussion | StreetEasy New York Real Estate Search- Real Estate Predictions For 2009. 2 comments. stevejhx. about 1 hour ago. ignore this person. The year 2008 saw prices fall and foreclosures rise, but will 2009 see the real estate market get back on track? In a word, not likely. …