If you're in a recently hot market that's risen a lot lately - and that's mostly along the coast but also in the Midwest and some southern markets - in those places, the experts are saying prices can drop from 5 to 15 percent off their highs of last year.

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Lately, many have been fixated on the recent weakness in the yen, as the dollar-yen rate has recently risen from around 75.5 yen to the dollar to 93.5.

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