Coachella Valley real estate to have "soft landing" (Desert Sun)

Coachella Valley real estate to have "soft landing" (Desert Sun)
With fears of a real estate bubble being discussed around the country, the Coachella Valley real estate market should see a "soft landing" in 2006, with appreciation rates between 10 and 18 percent as local home pricing trends continue to moderate, an economist with the California Association of Realtors told a breakfast gathering in Palm Desert Thursday.

Katrina fuels a real estate boom (MSNBC)
Amid all the debris in Biloxi and elsewhere on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, there are signs that Hurricane Katrina may be fueling a new real estate boom topping the one already started years ago by the casinos. NBC's Mark Potter reports.

Pop Goes the Real Estate Bubble (The Nation via Yahoo! News)
The Nation -- The Big One isn't the long-predicted California earthquake or even a hurricane named Katrina. The genuine big one will arrive with a deafening pop, the sound of the real estate bubble bursting. In the past few years there have been plenty of false sightings, but now comes something truly ominous: a 13 percent drop in Manhattan real estate prices in a mere three-month period ending