There have been a few houses here now that it's been reported sold at 400K over asking nearly doubling the pice. And for at least the last year they've said don't bother with inspections because the seller will move on to the next buyer.

I'lm wanting to build at some point but with lumber prices 4X what they were even last fall I won't be any time soon.

What about metal buildings? How are their prices?

United States, Canada and Mainland Chinese governments are causing these market disruptions.

Right now the disruptions are
“ramping positive up ever steeper slopes.”

History teaches us that when the trend turns negative, its is seldom a smooth turn,
and often it is like
“falling off a cliff”.

In the slang of Wall Street
a “ four sigma step function” may be coming.