[arin-ppml] Will the price per IP really be affectedby thetransfer market introduced in 2009-1?

[Kevin Kargel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:tedm at ipinc.net]
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 2:46 PM
> To: Kevin Kargel; 'Joe Maimon'
> Cc: 'ARIN PPML'
> Subject: RE: [arin-ppml] Will the price per IP really be affectedby
> thetransfer market introduced in 2009-1?
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Kargel [mailto:kkargel at polartel.com]
> > Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:41 AM
> > To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Joe Maimon
> > Cc: ARIN PPML
> > Subject: RE: [arin-ppml] Will the price per IP really be
> > affectedby thetransfer market introduced in 2009-1?
> >
> > >
> > >
> > Sitting on a house and not selling it is just not selling it.
> >  A price is only established when there is a sale.
> 
> Not true.  Home listing prices affect prices that home sellers set.
> If a lot of homes in an area are fetching 1 million, even though
> it may take a year on the market to do it, most sellers are not going
> to list their property at $800K even though doing so would result
> in an immediate sale.

The key word here is fetching.  What affects the market price is what people
are paying, not what people are asking.  Your taxes for example are not
going to go up because your neighbor advertises his home at an inflated
price.  They may go up if he actually sells it for that price. 
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