Analysis Topic: Housing Market Price trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Why Isn’t U.S. Housing Market A Bubble? / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: John_Rubino
In his book The Postcatastrophe Economy, iTulip’s Eric Janszen notes that financial bubbles don’t repeat. That is, yesterday’s bubble is never tomorrow’s because hot money likes to chase the next big thing, not the last big thing. Which explains how US equities, government bonds, fine art, and trophy properties like London penthouses can all be sizzling while US houses, the epicenter of the previous decade’s financial orgy, just sit there.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Dubai Residential is NOT a Property Bubble But the Party’s Over / Housing-Market / Global Housing Markets
By: Andrew_Butter
The sentiment of the experts at 2014 Cityscape Global is that Dubai residential property is “cooling”. That said, the words “bubble” and “bust” are studiously avoided, almost as if a communications guideline had been issued.Depending on who you talk to...prices went up easily by 50% and perhaps by 70% over the past five years since the bottom in early 2009; everyone appears to agree that they are back to where they were in January 2008. What happened between then and now is a subject of collective amnesia as are many of the statements made at the 2008 Cityscape...for example the spectacularly miss-timed pronouncement by one expert... “Investors say 2009 will be the best year for real estate investment in MENA, ever”.
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Saturday, September 20, 2014
Can the U.S. Economy Withstand Another Housing Market Breakdown? / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Sy_Harding
With the three fascinations of the week, the Fed’s FOMC statement, the separation vote in Scotland, and the Alibaba IPO, now history, will investors re-focus on the economy?
Given what the Fed actually said in its statement, and some recent economic reports, it might be a good idea.
Investors were anxious to judge how long the Fed will leave interest rates at low levels by whether or not it left the words “for a considerable time” in its FOMC statement.
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Monday, September 15, 2014
Property Rights and Property Taxes—and Countries That Don’t Have Them / Housing-Market / Global Housing Markets
By: Casey_Research
By Nick Giambruno, Senior Editor, InternationalMan.com
Do you really own something that you are forced to perpetually make payments on and which can be seized from you if you don’t pay?
I would say that you don’t.
You would possess such an item, but you wouldn’t own it—an important distinction
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Sunday, August 31, 2014
U.S. House Prices to Soar AFTER the Fed Raises Rates / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: DailyWealth
Dr Steve Sjuggerud writes:"Steve, you know the housing boom will end when the Fed raises interest rates, right?"
Oh really? What makes you so sure about that?
"Steve, you know that mortgage rates are going up, right? And you know that when mortgage rates rise, house prices will fall – or at least stop going up – right?"
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Sunday, August 31, 2014
Scotland Independence House Prices Crash, Deflationary Debt Death Spiral / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The consequences for the people of Scotland voting YES would be tantamount to the Scottish people firstly committing economic suicide as a consequence of the immense uncertainty in virtually every aspect of economic activity that would expect to manifest it self in dis-investment / flight of capital out of Scotland, from funds held in the banks deemed to be Scottish, to sale of a whole host of business and private assets such as properties as for many Scottish households the safest place to be at such an uncertain time would be to move into rental premises, even to the extent of a panic swapping of Scottish paper Pound notes for English paper Pound notes, just in case of volatility in the relative value of the notes by the market (shops).
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Peter Schiff U.S. Housing Market, House Prices Bubble Warning / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Peter Schiff recently made another appearance on RT News, once more warning that the U.S. Housing market is a bubble primed to burst as speculator investors will be forced to sell into a market without any buyers.
"I think this is a bubble.
I think speculative buyers are leaving the market ands there is no one to fill the void because the real buyers are absent and if you look at the recent home statistics the percentage of homes bought by first time buyers is at a record low and in fact home ownership amongst individuals is at generational lows so prices have to come down dramatically from here before real buyers can actually afford to buy all the properties that have been bought by speculators, and at some point the speculators if they cannot collect enough rent to cover the cost of ownership they are going to be selling these properties, and look out below because when they put these properties up for sale, again there are no buyers anywhere near the current prices."
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Friday, August 29, 2014
US House Prices Bull Market Over? Trend Forecast Video / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Slowing US house price inflation from a peak of 14% for data released in January this year to now 9% is prompting many housing market analysts to conclude that the US housing bull market may already be over, such as Professor Robert Shiller who recently expressed surprise at the strong rise in US house prices and stating that it is overvalued along with stocks and bonds.
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
China Housing Market Crisis $325K in Incentives to Buy, China's "eBay-Like" Portal / Housing-Market / China Housing Market
By: Mike_Shedlock
Developers in China are offering up to $325,000 in incentives to home buyers.The catch? Incentives come in the form of a credit on Alibaba’s Taobao, an e-commerce platform similar to eBay. More modest discounts, some of them retroactive, are offered by other developers to combat sinking purchase volumes. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, August 25, 2014
A Dodgy UK Housing Market / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Harry_Dent
The U.K. has been perhaps the hottest housing market in the developed world this year, and London’s housing market is even hotter, as I reported in “London has Gone Bonkers” on June 23, 2014.
Now, the sh*t is starting to hit the fan.
Rightmove is like the Zillow of the U.K. and it surveys 90% of the residential housing market. Its most recent survey found that prices dropped 2.9% in August (2013) in the U.K. and are down 3.7% since it peaked this past May as the chart below shows.
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Saturday, August 23, 2014
U.S. Housing Bull Market Over? House Prices Trend Forecast Current State / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Despite U.S. house prices surging higher in July by 1.1% (May data) after near flat lining for several months, the mainstream pundits continue to issue warnings of its unsustainability for as is always the case there are ample snippets of data out there to take either a positive or negative point of view and since fear tends to sell more copy, so that is where approx 80% of the mainstream media's focus lies.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Door Closes to First-time Buy-to-Let Mortgage Landlords / Housing-Market / Buy to Let
By: MoneyFacts
The choice of products available in the buy-to-let (BTL) market is in a period of what would appear to be unhindered growth.
Removed from the majority of regulation, the Mortgage Market Review and income multiples, the number of BTL mortgages has increased by 237 (52%) deals in just one year.
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Monday, August 11, 2014
UK House Prices Crash Warning - Daily Mail Cognitive Dissonance / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
FEAR Sells, DOOM Sells which is why the mainstream media at least 80% of the time peddle FEAR and DOOM by even turning a positive news story into a DOOM AND GLOOM story as illustrated by Britain's Daily Mail where it does not matter what the event, it is always an imminent catastrophe!
Take the weather, a slightly windy and rainy Sunday / Monday was flagged as Britain being about to be hit by a hurricane as illustrated by the Daily Mails headline.
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Monday, August 11, 2014
UK House Prices Boom - Top Quick Cheap Tips to Help Sell Your Home / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Average UK house prices are now rising at the rate of £2,665 per month which exceeds average UK gross earnings of just £2,300 per month as house prices inflation is now being sustained at a rate of more than 10% per annum prompting many home owners to attempt to capitalie on the gains by putting their homes onto the market.
Friday, August 08, 2014
Why UK House Prices Will Continue Rising - 'It's Immigration Stupid' / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The latest data from the Halifax puts average UK house prices at £189,726 (NSA) up £18,662 since the start of this year, which is resulting in a huge boost to home owner consumer confidence as house prices are now rising at a rate that is more than average monthly earnings which is strongly favourable for the Conservative party should the trend be sustained into the May 2015 General Election as election wins have always been a case of the 'it's the economy stupid' or more accurately put 'it's the housing market stupid'.
Wednesday, August 06, 2014
Rising UK Fixed Mortgage Interest Rates / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
The ill-fated Government Funding for Lending Scheme was withdrawn from the retail market in January this year, and Moneyfacts can reveal that average interest rates on the popular five and two-year fixed rate mortgages have started to escalate in response. However, at the same time, the lesser known three-year fixed rate has continued to fall.
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Friday, July 25, 2014
Tap in to Your Inner Feminist-Real Estate Mogul Without Holding Real Property / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Don_Miller
The new book titled #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso—reformed petty thief and CEO of a $100 million online clothing store—is the latest “live and work as I do if you want to succeed” book from a string of brand-building female executives. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has women “leaning in,” while Arianna Huffington’s sleep crusade marches on in her latest book, Thrive. Now, I should confess that I haven’t actually read any of these books; one of my colleagues gave me the recap. However, I have had another female executive on my mind: Ms. C.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Buy-to-let Mortgage Deals Grow by 43% / Housing-Market / Buy to Let
By: MoneyFacts
The number of products on the market to service the growing interest in Buy-to-let (BTL) mortgages has risen to highs not seen since 2008, reveals Moneyfacts.co.uk.
Research into BTL product numbers show that the number of products on offer in July 2013 increased to 466, but that today the number has risen by 42.7% to 665.
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Friday, July 18, 2014
U.S. Housing Market in Trouble Again - It’s 2009 All Over Again / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Housing is in trouble… again.
As I write this, several housing stocks I recommended my Short Side Fortunes subscribers get in on are down fairly sizeably today. One stock is trading right now at $39.85. If it breaks below $38, that’s bad news. Another is trading at $23.75. If it breaks below $23, that’s bad news. And yet another is trading at $31.05. If it breaks below $30, that’s bad news.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014
U.S. Housing Market Ponzi Scheme Losses: American Homeowners Battling Wall Street / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Ellen_Brown
Did the Other Shoe Just Drop? Black Rock and PIMCO Sue Banks for $250 Billion
For years, homeowners have been battling Wall Street in an attempt to recover some portion of their massive losses from the housing Ponzi scheme. But progress has been slow, as they have been outgunned and out-spent by the banking titans.