Re: are real estate markets competitive?

2003-01-27 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 1/24/03 10:32:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: real estate markets aren't competitive, in the economic sense of the word? In the sense of rivalry, there is plenty of competition in cities. Maybe not in some rural areas. Fred Foldvary Having just moved from Iowa I got to

Re: are real estate markets competitive?

2003-01-26 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 1/25/03 3:54:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm also reminded that, like one friend of mine, people who work in small towns often buy an old farm house and live in it, while contracting out to some neighbor or farming friend to do a little bit of

Re: are real estate markets competitive?

2003-01-26 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 1/25/03 9:20:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Federal, state and local land regulations often discourage the conversion of currently-farmed land for other purposes, like indstrial or high-density residential use. The number of people engaged in

Re: are real estate markets competitive?

2003-01-25 Thread Fred Foldvary
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Federal, state and local land regulations often discourage the conversion of currently-farmed land for other purposes, like indstrial or high-density residential use. The number of people engaged in full-time farming has continued to decline, and virtually nobody

Re: are real estate markets competitive?

2003-01-25 Thread john hull
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm also reminded that, like one friend of mine, people who work in small towns often buy an old farm house and live in it, while contracting out to some neighbor or farming friend to do a little bit of farming on the land the buyer doesn't use for residential

Re: are real estate markets competitive?

2003-01-24 Thread Fred Foldvary
--- john hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In most localities is seems that real estate markets are pretty heterogeneous in terms of both land characteristics and extant buildings, Actually, the land is quite homogenous. Your neighbor's land is not much different from your's, unless one of you