anyway...the 'moral' of the story was that in the 'sea of success' (as our property inclined friends would like us to believe) there are some real and severe 'dissaster stories' which would counteract previous endless claims of success and prices going up and up and up and up and ...
...when claim is: nobody can lose any money !
...then one (or several) stories of LOSS tends to mean something !
your examples, on the other hand, sound like 'some more RE makebelieve' !
(even though houses possibly sold for those prices...still)
