23 september 2007

A Reality Check for Home Sellers - New York Times

A Reality Check for Home Sellers - New York Times:
By AUSTAN GOOLSBEE Published: September 23, 2007
ECONOMISTS and other humans don’t always see eye to eye. “Economists tend to think people are crazy because they won’t sell their houses for less than they paid for them — and people think economists are crazy for thinking things exactly like that,” said Professor Christopher Mayer, director of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate at Columbia Business School and an authority on real estate economics.