What are your housing bubble predictions for the second half of 2017? From six months ago, "2019 will likely be closer to a bottom than a top. San Diego kicked off bubble 1.0 after 9/11/01 and Rancho Santa Fe peaked end of 2003 on a price per square foot basis. Then the cooling spread downwards, didn't hit the low end until 2005 or so. So you generally get only about 3 years of high single digit to low double digit appreciation. Market cant support more than that. We’ve already peaked in this cycle, only fools hear the music still playing."

One said, "In 2017, many people in the retail world are going to lose their jobs."

Another said, " This is the year that more of the same ends, we begin to revert to the mean, and things start to get weird. There’s just too much artifice, lying, criminality, imbalance, and overall fakeness in the global and domestic economies for the various bubbles, housing and otherwise, to continue. I’m not sure how the new Administration will address things, but it’s plain that many in the elite want Trump to fail. I actually believe somebody, or some entity, threatened by Trump, or other embodiments of nationalism or political populism, may trigger a minor financial crisis on purpose."

"It’s now going to be politically and socially acceptable for the mainstream media to report bad economic news."

From one year ago. "My predictions: There is not going to be a recession. Rent control laws get passed in some local areas due to rent hike shocks. If it feels like Enron all over again it probably is: a temporary flight to safety over regional issues will reveal the fraud that is underlying this echo housing bubble."

"Price fixing behavior and illegal collusion among realtors is one element that I think is more serious than the public imagines. Twilio had a successful ipo but they still dont make money. Ask google why that is and the answers reveal there is a circular effect with many unicorns being clients of other unicorns. Some of the explanations for why profit doesn’t matter remind me of the dot com bust."

And one had this, "Major political or economic shock hits US in August/September. Recession is belatedly found to have begun in Q2 2016. High end housing inventory continues to pile up, putting downward pressure on mid-level housing prices. Median sales prices start to drift downward as high end properties taken out of the mix. Entry-level housing remains in high demand, especially in desirable neighborhoods."

"Presidential election is close; Hillary prevails albeit not without scandals. Brexit is shelved…"

And finally, "Predictions: The Chinese will NOT sell their houses in British Columbia regardless of any pull-back, correction or crash. A U.S. stock market pullback of 5-7% is imminent. Rents for 2017 will rise 5-10%. Downtown Miami will become a new Chinatown."

"Housing prices will go sideways in 2017 with scarcity and location still being the only criteria to consider. The electoral college will decide the next Presidential election. We will wake up to a China stock market crash in 2017 which then takes us down as well."

"College admissions drop, car inventories rise and a Deflationary Recession sets in during 2017. The banking and business interests will continue to game elders and and the upper lower class."