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The real-estate market and sales of Saint Joseph statuettes tend to move in opposite directions, according to a Missouri-based religious-goods company queried by the Wall Street Journal. For instance, from 2009 to 2010, when local home prices were stagnant, sales of the figurines slightly more than doubled ; when prices began to rise, sales of the saint’s image declined. In 2013, statuette sales were down 10.6% from the previous year, a period in which the median U.S. MORE

It’s been over 10 years since we made a real estate transaction, so this was quite an experience. We learned that purchasing any real estate is more difficult now. Could this be one of the reasons for a continuous sagging real estate market? MORE

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It certainly might look like that, especially in the wild San Francisco Bay real estate market where housing prices are at an all time high and competition is fierce. You might think this has become a transactional world, where important decisions are made solely on the basis of price. MORE

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