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I'm sure that a price increase in land results in a "rising tide" effect for all homes, but because someone is willing to spend 64M on a mansion, does it mean condo's should be worth more too?

It has a cascade effect - if a person who can afford a $2M house is forced into buying a smaller property because $2M doesn't go as far, that displaces the guy who could afford $1M, who displaces the guy who can afford $750K and so forth. Further down the line it hits people who can't afford to buy at all, people whose rent becomes unaffordable on their income, and so forth.




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