A search of old newspapers finds surprisingly few articles about the outlook for home prices. Those that did appear generally seem to be based on the assumption that minor fluctuations in construction costs, not massive market swings, drove the modest home price movements that they noted.
投资人观念的变化令人震惊。20世纪70年代末房地产价格上涨之前，很少有人对房价的上涨表示忧虑。翻遍过去的报纸也找不到几篇有关未来房价的评论。有限的几篇评论一般也认为建筑成本的小幅波动、而非大规模的市场振荡是造成小幅房价涨落的驱动力量。