How many times do we have to hear that the housing market is doing one thing… and that must mean that the whole market is doing the same thing?

When the price of a barrel of oil goes up, it is a singular commodity moving. While there are different grades of oil (sweet light crude, heavy crude, rough crude, etc.) they are interconnected. If one moves, they all move because their value is interconnected.

When prices move up or down in GA, there is little correlation to prices in Maine. They aren’t interconnected. There may be a few instances when they can be driven by the same forces (the Sub-Prime Meltdown.. SPM, is an example). If there is MASS unemployment nationwide, that would affect multiple markets, but