Real Estate Investing during Dotcom Bubble

[Malcolm Douglas]

Would love to get feedback from those invested in real estate during the dotcom bubble of the late 90s and early 2000's.  This was a obviously a different type of pullback compared to the more recent real estate crash, so I would love to hear any differences or similarities.

How did prices of real estate act leading up to the peak and thereafter?  What challenges/opportunities, if any, did you encounter?

[John Umphress]

In Austin there was a bit of a lull in price escalation - houses sat on the market longer but there wasn't much discounting.  Affected the high dollar homes the most.  Denver was hit pretty hard due to the presence of telecom - a lot of fiber companies went down the tubes.  (Smart investors used the downturn as an opportunity to load up on "dark" fiber at pennies on the dollar - cash is king.)