“Bargain Bin” Sales, or, Housing’s Wal-Mart Effect‘Home Resales Rise as Prices Fall’ –The Wall Street Journal (10/26/08)Call it the housing market’s version of the Wal-Mart effect: as consumers get pinched by a weakening economy, the goods still selling are value-priced staples. In many housing markets nationally, sales numbers are being skewed by all the purchases...Read More