38% of American Think It is Good Time to Buy Real Estate.

This is very interesting research that track the Worldwide Barometer of Financial Crisis. It is quite encouraging to see that American are, despite recent economic and financial meltdown, quite optimistic about future, especially real estate, compared other major countries.

Here is detailed results on real estate related questions:

"In general, do you believe it is a good or bad time to buy a house?"

38% of American has responded "Good Time", second highest in optimism after Swiss. I believe it has lot to do with the fact that 1) US real estate has declined quite dramatically already (compared to other countries) and 2) American Love Affair with Real Estate.

Country	Good Time	Not Sure	Not Good Time	DK
Switzerland	57	11	25	7
USA	38	26	27	9
India	37	29	26	8
Austria	37	14	40	9
Germany	32	26	30	12
Spain	31	6	61	2
UK	28	30	39	3
Brazil	27	13	55	5
Canada	26	37	26	11
Netherlands	22	7	63	8
Korea	21	34	39	6
Italy	18	13	65	4
France	17	36	37	10
Iceland	13	16	66	5
Japan	12	29	49	10
China	11	49	36	4
Russia	7	28	47	18
Total	25	24	43	8
*G8	22	28	40	10
*BRICs	20	30	41	9

Here is the gist of research and download link, I highly recommend this research if you are global minded. This research clearly shows characteristic of nationality and various stages of economic development of surveyed countries.

Download full research at:
http://www.winmr.com/doc_upload/WIN%20CRISIS%20INDEX.pdf

WIN conducted the first wave of the WIN Crisis Index interviewing 14,555 respondents in 17 countries simultaneously. The objective of the survey is to evaluate the respondents’ perception of the financial crisis in their countries. The WIN Crisis Index will be conducted every 3 months. The countries of the G8: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, included in the 17 countries surveyed, are also included in each table. The same has been done for the countries known as BRIC: Brazil, Russia, India and China.

Happy Investing!!!!!