Experts divided over San Diego's Housing outlook

The San Diego Tribune reports:

As San Diego County bids farewell to a five-year housing-price boom, the one question that lingers is whether the local real estate market is speeding toward a crash or gliding to a soft landing.

Some national real estate experts have placed San Diego on their list of cities that can expect price drops, which hasn't happened in the local market since 1995. But those based in California are more sanguine. They acknowledge some warning signs such as expected mortgage rate increases but foresee no collapse, pointing to a healthy local economy.

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