Few, if any, people at that time were thinking that the party would soon come to an end. In December 2006, I wrote a column in which I said that the booming housing market had finally slowed down as I had previously predicted, and I said that there would probably be little, if any, home price appreciation in 2007 because the number of homes on the market would increase and turn a seller’s market into a buyer’s market.

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