Most people who buy their homes for long-term buy it to settle in their neighborhoods and have kids go to the same school, not speculate on price increases and profit from them.<p>Leave alone the fact that when markets are over-heated, those <i>huge</i> profits can only be locked into <i>huge</i> base prices for any other property that&#x27;s selling in this peak market. Unless the step 2 after hitting those huge profits involves packing up and moving to MidWest.