Friday, January 26, 2007

Twelve Tempting Locations For Vacation-Home Buys

The recent softening in the U.S. real-estate market after years of double-digit percentage growth in home prices may make it scarier than ever to buy a vacation home.

Some regions are scary because, even with the recent dip, they seem prohibitively expensive. Elsewhere, buyers may have understandable fears that places that seem affordable will only become more so as prices continue to fall.

The editors at RealEstateJournal.com set out to identify potential vacation-home deals that would assuage the most nervous Nellies. We looked for appealing locales across the U.S. where prices rose at a rate well below the national average of 84.3% between the second quarter of 1996 and the second quarter of 2006, and have above-average employment outlooks according to data from Economy.com.

read more: http://www.realestatejournal.com/buysell/regionalnews/20061109-kim.html

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