Hubert Bromma, The Entrust Group 07.20.06, 2:15 PM ET
Homes are staying on the market longer, sellers are reducing their prices, and the exuberance that marked the real estate industry for the past five years is now long gone amid talk of an over-inflated housing "bubble." But all that nervousness is symptomatic of the kind of short-term, get-rich-quick kind of thinking that has become part of the national zeitgeist rather than sound, thoughtful retirement planning.