Bad is a relative term, I guess. Prices are stable - I mean like flat in nominal dollars - and have been for quite some time. Sales rates are pretty stable too, and the churn from 'towards/in' the City to 'away from/out of the City' keeps the build rates up. Some places up here - near the Finger Lakes for example - are expensive by any measure, and drawing significant Euro buyers. And, EK was very good to me, for most of my decades there ... rr