Sentences with phrase «during the housing bubble years»

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Housing prices during the real estate bubble leading to the Great Recession returned about 6 % per year.

While population growth in urban counties has clearly recovered from the housing bubble, during which urban counties lagged for many years and even lost population in 2006, the rebound in urban population growth was brief.

But unless one expects a reprise of that bubble, or at least a reprise of the sort of enthusiasm we saw during the housing bubble (when valuations ascended high enough to drive 10 - year prospective returns below 3 % annually), the odds of sustained durable gains from present levels are weak.

This of course hasn't gone unnoticed by John Taylor, who has written a number of papers over the last year showing empirically that the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy during this period was an important catalyst of the housing bubble and therefore influential in the current problems the economy is experiencing.

[102] Testimony given to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission by Richard M. Bowen III on events during his tenure as the Business Chief Underwriter for Correspondent Lending in the Consumer Lending Group for Citigroup (where he was responsible for over 220 professional underwriters) suggests that by the final years of the US housing bubble (2006 — 2007), the collapse of mortgage underwriting standards was endemic.

But much like the country's private lenders during the first several years of the present century, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's drive to increase profits helped create the housing bubble (thanks to lowered underwriting standards, approvals for subprime borrowers and the bundling of loans into mortgage - backed securities).

Exceptionally low rates and housing prices that are down as much as a third from their record highs five years ago have made buying a house a much cheaper proposition than during the real estate bubble.

If you bought your home during the housing bubble, you've probably seen its value plummet in recent years, particularly in Orange County.

During these 10 years, Greenspan who was still the FED chief then, lowered interest rates, and this facilitated easier borrowing which led to stock bubbles and later on the housing bubble.

It's likely that folks haven't been richer in many years than they are today, except for maybe in 2006 during the peak of the housing bubble.

Mortgage delinquencies are on the rise for home equity lines of credit that were taken out during the housing bubble, as well as others that are reaching the 10 - year mark, Equifax data shows.

Forty percent of homeowners who bought a house during the bubble will regain equity by the end of this year, according to the report, provided prices mirror 2016 movement.

Despite this year's appreciation, approximately 60 percent of housing markets remain below values reached during the bubble years, according to the analysis.