Topic: U.S Home Buyers Beware - This Is Not Your Father’s Housing Market
It's a cliché, but it's also a truism: there's nothing like owning a home.
Home ownership provides many advantages and, at least since World War II, owning a home has become part of the American dream.
However, if you're calculating that a home purchase in the immediate years ahead -- 2012, 2013, 2014 -- will position you for a capital gain...you need to think more-carefully about that next, major step.