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are real estate prices memory-less?
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for various reasons, real estate prices exhibit far more memory than stock prices.  the primary reason for this is that real estate is much less liquid.  transaction costs for stock trading are on the order of 10 basis points (0.1%), whereas a real estate transaction will typically have total costs (including title, lawyers, brokers, engineers, etc.) of around 5% of the amount of the transaction.  a stock transaction can be executed in milliseconds, whereas real estate transactions typically take months.  thus today's behavior is a much better indicator of future price behavior for real estate than for stocks.
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