Recession...

Recession? We've been house hunting for months now and we haven't quite found the house that we like yet. Why "Recession?"? Well, Jenny and I have look at many houses, I didn't keep count but we looked at many. From so many houses that we looked at, we liked 3 houses. All three were taken before we were able to make up our minds. Hence, "recession?". The first one, we sure took our own sweet time to decide. Why wouldn't we? We weren't rushing to move into a new house, plus we're expecting property prices to drop. So anyways, that was a newer house (2 years old) so we thought maybe it's still hot for newer properties. Then we shifted our focus to slightly older houses (about 5 years) as I suppose they're off the radar of most 1st time home buyers, even upgraders. Saw 2 house that we like and wanted to view them again 2 weeks later because both Jenny and I were away. Alas, we were greeted with bad news for both houses. Again, "recession"? If you just look at these incidents, you wouldn't never have thought that Malaysia is experiencing a contracting economy. It's weird to know that jobs have been lost, profits have taken a dive and the share market has kaplunked. But still we weren't able to get the house that we like just because we're being cautious... :-s