Homebuyersnationwidearewatchinghousingpricesgoup，up，andup．"Howhighcantheygo？"isthequestiononeveryone'slips．"Aslongasinterestratesstayaround5percent，there'snotelling，"remarkedonerealtor（
Homebuyers nationwide are watching housing prices go up，up，and up．"How high can they go？"is the question on everyone's lips．"As long as interest rates stay around 5percent，there's no telling，"remarked one realtor（房产中介） in Santa Monica，California．
"It's crazy，"said Tim，who is looking for a house near the beach．"In 1993，i bought my first place，a two-bedroom apartment in Venice，for 70.000．Myfriendsthoughtthatiwasoverpayingthen．Fiveyearslater，ihadtomove．Isolditfor230，000，which was a nice profit．Last year，while visiting friends here，i saw in the local paper that the exact same apartment was for sale for 510，000dollars！"
Itisaseller'smarket．Homebuyersfeelliketheyhavetofeelliketheyhavetoofferatleast10percentmorethantheaskingprice．Donna，anewownerofaone-bedroomapartmentinVeniceBeach，said，"that'swhatidid，itoldtheownerthatwhateveranyoneoffersyou，i'llgiveyou20，000dollarsmore，underthetable，soyoudon'thavetopayyourrealtoranyofit．Iwastiredoflooking．"
Tim says he hopes the doesn't get that desperate．"Whether you decide to buy or not，you still feel like you made the wrong decision．If you buy，you feel like you overpaid．If you dong't buy，you want to kick yourself for passing up a great opportunity．"
Everyone says the bubble（泡沫） has to burst sometime，but everyone hopes it will burst the day after they sell their house．Even government officials have no idea what the future will bring．"All we can say is that，unavoidably，these things go in cycles，"said the state director of housing．"What goes up must come down．But，as we all know，housing prices always stay up a little higher than they go down．So you can't lose over the long run．Twenty years down the road，your house is always worth more than you paid for it．"
26．From Paragraph 1we know that___．
A．the housing price is not a daily topic at all
B．everyone is concerned about the housing price
