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The interest in real estate is keeping newspapers seeing black ink. [Note: Paid Sub.] Besides homeowners who have seen the value of their properties rise over the past several years, it is newspapers, specifically classified advertising, that have enjoyed the rise [but the recovery has been slow.](http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=99705&format=)

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Real estate comprises 1/4 of all classified advertising. [Gains in real estate advertising](http://www.forbes.com/associatedpress/feeds/ap/2005/07/14/ap2139932.html) has possibly masked increased competition from web site listings. Correspondingly, [newspaper stocks have not done well in 2005.](http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/24/news/fortune500/newspapers/)

>Could [the intensity of bubble talk](http://matrix.millersamuelv2.wpenginepowered.com/?p=76) be more influenced by the
>thirst for dollars than we give it credit for? Could the media make the
>bubble a self-fulfilling prophecy?