“I hope not. We’d like to sell our house here after 50 years on Mercer Island.”

Marge Weissman

Mercer Island

retired

“No. The demand for houses is so high and I’ve seen real estate prices here on the Island just consistently increase.”

Holly Levin

Mercer Island

custom cake designer

“I don’t think there will be one locally. It might slow down, but I don’t think there will be a bust. I think it will be the same nationally, too.”

Karen Upson

Mercer Island

part-time retail sales

“The truth is nobody knows. In California people thought the prices were astronomical and they just kept going up, so there’s no reason to think that can’t happen here.”

Rachelle King

Mercer Island

real estate agent

“I’d say yes just based on the history of the economic situation we have in this country. It can only go so far, as eventually prices outstrip the buying power of the middle class and poor.”

Bradford King

Mercer Island

software engineer

“I think we (in the Northwest) have dodged some of the last few that have happened in the country. We’re probably about due.”

Kate Stewart

Mercer Island

interior designer/co-owner of a construction company