New Rent Report Suggests Possible Bubble - CNBC.
That article up there? It's written with one purpose - to make you panic and buy stuff. Courtesy of CNBC.com comes some hype about the rental market. Apparently a new report from Zillow shows rents rising in almost perfect proportion to home sale price falling nationwide. They specifically talk about the high year-over-year rent growth for Chicago, as shown in this month's Rent Bacon.
Of course, the media will take any statistics on the housing market they can get and turn them into hype. If they don't provoke your emotions, you might use your logic to make a decision, and that never works out well for them nor for their advertisers. But they are trying to manipulate investors in the rental market by using the same tactics as those that worked to make home buyers and sellers all crazy and depressed.
They're doing it wrong. (more…)
