Real estate in Florida: Apart from the collapse of the housing market, it's great!

I know that mocking the nation's real estate trade organizations for their perpetual sunny optimism in the face of bad news has been getting mighty fashionable lately--maybe too fashionable. But this little item from the National Association of Realtors' house publication is just too precious to ignore:

University of Florida study released this week paints a relatively optimistic picture of the sunshine state's housing market.

“The results from our survey remind us that the underlying markets for real estate in Florida are still in good shape,” says Wayne Archer, director of UF's Bergstrom Center for Real Estate Studies. “Owner residential is the only area of real estate markets where there are problems at this time. Apartments, retail, office, industrial and hospitality all remain stable and healthy.”