HOUSE PRICES: Still too high? I think so, and I’m surprised at how unrealistic sellers still seem to be. I’m seeing people put houses on the market for 10-15% more than they paid two years ago, when those houses are probably worth 10-15% less. Or worse.

UPDATE: Reader Bob Molyneux writes:

Amen.

My wife and I are in the market for a house in the Duluth, Georgia area and we have seen a ton. So many are junked up–don’t you folks know what a garbage bag is? Are banks really that uninterested in selling foreclosed houses that they make it almost impossible? I don’t know about a buyers’ market but our credit rating is great and our current locked in interest rate is 4.97%, we have money in the bank, and this will be an oldie but goody: a “conventional” loan. Maybe we are picky but I would guess that you are right that the better houses are 10-20% high. The bad houses are 90% high.

Yeah, I think people are still in denial. Don’t know why the bankers aren’t better about prepping these houses for sale.