The next 12 to 18 months could be your best period since the early 1990s to pick up Sacramento property at depressed prices.
If you're going to be in the Sacramento houses for sale game, you've got to be active before it's too late and the market bottoms out and the anticipated gradual rebound begins.
The top opportunity markets are right here, right now where real estate values are down the most and where speculators are most eager to bail out of their mistakes at deep discounts.
The difference between the current real estate down cycle and past down cycles is that capital is relatively cheap and available, whether from regular lenders or private equity sources. That's an important point for anyone thinking about whether, and how quickly, to get involved.