# How's the real estate market?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-the-real-estate-market/829438>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 13, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-the-real-estate-market/829438 "2019-02-13T03:15:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-the-real-estate-market/829438/21 "2019-02-16T04:23:09Z")

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Texas also required larger down payment ratios than other states - negative-amortization loans, low and no-doc loans, 5% down loans, none of that shit was allowed to fester pre-2008.

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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-the-real-estate-market/829438/22 "2019-02-16T04:27:22Z")

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Oh, and it’s great here in San Antonio. We have 25,000 people moving in every year\*, it’s a young population, demand is high, sales are high, construction is ongoing. As economic growth is a function (largely) of population growth, the future looks bright for the San Antonio-Austin corridor.

\*estimates are 1.2 million new people by 2040.

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**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-the-real-estate-market/829438/23 "2019-02-17T01:15:47Z")

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> [@elfkin477](#):
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> Can you research the median price over the past decade or so? And read into local-market articles about the forecast for 2019?

I haven’t done all that yet. Thought I’d see what others more knowledgeable thought. I keep going back and forth on the topic.

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