Quote from Chuck E. Cheese:
After another crash (if the big boyz leave the market alone) price will even be better because everyone will be too broke to buy anything. Big if, but when you look at baby boomers retire (or re-retire) and ninja generation with no income and no desire to start a family, real estate will be a sight for sore eyes for the foreseeable future. Another thing to watch for is when banks stop monkeying around with the supply than the market will take it down another notch and increase in taxes, food and energy prices, could only mean less cash for down payments. Only thing that could prop up price is high inflation but that will kill everything else i.e. the dollar.
In essence, RE is going to be another dead money play in the majority of markets.