Housing values push Americans' total wealth to record $88T

``From the New York site: Rising home values helped push the overall wealth of Americans to a total of $88.1 trillion through the first quarter of this year -- an all-time record. A $498 billion increase in residential real estate values nationwide drove the jump in wealth, offsetting a shaky stock market in the first three months of the year that saw the overall value of equities fall $160 billion, according to a new Federal Reserve report released Thursday.'' -- Seems peaky ....