In six years, their condo’s value had dropped from $71,000 to $23,500, a 67 percent decline. Given that historically, from 1895 to 1995, median home prices nationwide rose roughly with the pace of inflation, this was an extremely striking collapse. In the housing bubble that burst in 2006, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller index, Dallas fell only about …
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