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 Another nail in the coffin of the struggling real estate recovery?

That’s Jonathan Miller and me in San Francisco at Real Estate Connect. I am glad we are friends because Jonathan is about the most quoted real estate consultant and expert these days, and one of the most knowledgeable appraisers I know. (I’ve given up on the PhD’d economists. Get me real people who work.) Money Magazine calls JM the “Best Online Real Estate Expert”; The New York Observer says he’s one of the 100 Most Powerful People in Real Estate; Inman News crowns him one of the top 25 most influential real estate bloggers in the U.S. and his blog, Matrix: Interpreting the real estate economy, was voted one of the top five U.S. real estate blogs. While I chatted with him in his New York office in June, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times called him within an hour. So when we got the news that Standard and Poors had downgraded the U.S. credit rating from Triple A to AA, the person I most wanted to call was Jonathan to learn. What the hec does this mean to housing?

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