Top 10 Real Estate Predictions for 2011

By Elizabeth Weintraub, About.com Guide

We've been watching the national real estate market mostly fall for the past 5 years and, quite frankly, consumers are desperate for relief. Relief is in sight; it's just not around the corner. Prices may fall a little and climb a little, but the market will stay flat.

Still, real estate professionals will cling to any shred of hope, including that of recovery, digging in that bag of optimism, looking for proof that the market is on the rebound. Recovery is way off in the distance, on the horizon. If you squint, you can see it, but recovery is out of our reach in 2011. We need jobs. And there ain't no stinkin' jobs.

_{At the time of writing, Elizabeth Weintraub, DRE # 00697006, is a Broker-Associate at Lyon Real Estate in Sacramento, California.}