Sentences with phrase «estate bubble as»

Some people predicted a real estate bubble as early as 2002.

It would start out as a recession, but then quickly evolve into a depression because of the bursting of the real estate bubble as well as the Dow.

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That fuelled what many view as a real estate bubble.

Porter, who believes Toronto real estate is definitely in a bubble, anticipates the market will follow a similar trajectory as Vancouver, with sales dropping but prices not moving much in either direction.

In early 2004, as American house prices roared higher and there came dire warnings from some quarters about the existence of a bubble — accompanied, of course, by strident denials from banks, most economists and the mortgage and real estate industries — Ben Bernanke (then still a governor before he became Fed chairman) addressed the problem of what to tell the American people.

As the world suffers another food crisis, some industry watchers think farmland could follow tech and real estate to become the next big bubble.

As a perverse reward for its rapid growth and heavy infrastructure investment, China is starting to face some of the trials of mature economies: a stagnant workforce, a real estate bubble, and high local government debt levels.

Spain's economy was among those hardest hit by the financial crisis, as a deflating real estate bubble spurred massive unemployment.

Besides inflating the largest real estate bubble in world history, this massive infusion of debt also financed many white elephant projects, such as useless infrastructure and excess steel, automobile, and cement factories.

The signs of a classic bubble, such as a run - up in real estate speculation and oversupply, are also absent, and even though home prices are high, there is no reason to think they'll plummet.

A real estate bubble in China priced the homes well out of the reach of most Shanghai residents, and most were instead bought as investments or second homes by wealthy Chinese.

This could have a catastrophic effect of creating a real estate bubble, with apartment prices in Copenhagen that already soared as much as 60 percent since 2012.

The housing market, with a few local exceptions, has plenty of room to grow without wading into bubble territory, but real estate rallies, as we know know well, can't last forever.

We stopped feeling sorry for ourselves after realizing we could make just as much money buying puts, shorting stocks, and investing in the real estate bubble.

Weakening currencies in the post-Soviet states threaten to raise default rates on foreign - currency mortgages as collapse of the Baltic real estate bubble drags down Swedish banks, while the Hungarian property plunge threatens Austrian banks.

For example, after Latvian property prices soared as Swedish bank branches fueled the real estate bubble, living standards plunged.

This may be good news for stock market and real estate speculators as savings are used to inflate the stock market and real estate bubble.

The tendency is for banking systems — and the currency — to collapse after such bubbles, as falling prices for their real estate collateral (aggravated by an exodus of flight capital) hollow out the banking system's balance sheets.

The real economic value of an apartment is not necessarily the same as its market price, especially if a speculative real estate bubble has artificially boosted prices, so let us assume that the fundamental value of these apartments to Chinese households is actually between one - third and one - half of the market value.

Because crazy as it may seem, it was the real estate bubble that brought in the foreign exchange — in the form of mortgage loans denominated in foreign currencies — that financed their structural trade deficits.

Just as real estate lending fuels land speculation, so the withdrawal of such credit leaves property markets to decline, sometimes with a crash, as occurred in Japan after 1990 when its financial bubble burst.

Their financial surrender policy endorses the European Central Bank's lobbying for the neoliberal deregulation that led to the real estate bubble and debt leveraging, as if it were a success story rather than the road to national debt peonage.

Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did in the form of a real estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now forced to do) which forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused by German and Asian policies).

Low interest rates helped fuel the real estate and stock market bubble by making the debt side of the balance sheet less expensive, creating a «wealth effect» as people came to believe that rising property and stock - market prices would be able to pay off their obligations.

While there has been a noticeable shift among family offices toward real estate following the bubble — as many took advantage of the troubled real estate market post-crash and scooped up valuable assets at a discount to pre-recession valuations — this allocation is still remarkable and outside the typical family portfolio composition reported in our survey.

Real estate investments haven't performed so well over the last couple years, as the bursting of the housing bubble really hurt the market and impacted many lives in a negative way.

The Paris - based OECD warned that «there is a risk that a prolonged period of easy finance could result in a price bubble,» which may endanger French banks [5], while Hervé Boulhol, the OECD's France economist, warned against treating French real estate as a safe - haven and that the property market's powerful rise without a corresponding rise in income «may signal a bubble phenomenon, as a bubble is a disconnection with fundamentals.»

Lately, it looks like South Florida real estate prices are on their way back to pre-crisis level, but the question always remains as to whether that sudden surge of interest for the real estate market will remain strong, or the bubble will burst once more.

As interest rates rose, the massive real estate / mortgage bubble popped, and the stock market again crashed.

As big as previous real estate and stock market bubbles have been, the current global bubble in government debt dwarfs them alAs big as previous real estate and stock market bubbles have been, the current global bubble in government debt dwarfs them alas previous real estate and stock market bubbles have been, the current global bubble in government debt dwarfs them all.

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They are in part cyclical, as the bursting of a real estate bubble has led to sustained bank deleveraging: the overall balance sheet of Puerto Rican banks has declined more than that of Greece.

Just because the real estate market in the Toronto (well known as the epicenter of the universe) and to a lesser extent Vancouver is in bubble territory does not mean that there is a real estate bubble in the rest of Canada.

Experts worry that China's property market may be heading into bubble territory as the economy's dependency on real estate reaches a level close to the housing peaks in the U.S. and Japan.

Richard: Great insight as always, and last time we talked about the commercial real estate bubble and we thought today we'd do a special focus on the millennial generation and how financial repression through repressed interest rates and quantitative easing has resulted in asset bubbles that ultimately have affected the millennial generation in terms of their values, how they look at the economy and life and the way they're conducting themselves in the economy: what they're facing in terms of the housing market and the job situation.

I read some of Michael Burry's writing before the housing crash, and I saw that he consistently referenced the misdeeds of mortgage lenders as a way to clue him in to the real estate bubble at that time.

So the Fed's real goal is to re-inflate the real estate bubble (while spurring a stock market bubble as well, if it can).

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Toronto's 1980s real estate bubble was apparently about supply and demand as well — until suddenly it wasn't.

Even if China's debt and real estate bubbles don't pop, resulting in a global recession, slowing economic growth from China could have a detrimental effect on long - term energy prices and result in prolonged weakness in the entire energy sector, including oil services suppliers such as U.S. Silica.

The Sage Policy Group CEO pointed to possible real estate and stock market bubbles, lagging wages and rising business costs associated with employee benefits and health care as factors that could slow growth in 2020 and beyond.

As the real estate bubble deflated, so did the plans.

Now, in his first novel since 2002, Lanchester explores the real estate bubble and the banking crisis through fiction that is as enrapturing as it is psychologically acute.

Given falling property values in much of the nation, this year's loan limits are likely to be lower in many areas as last year's formula for calculating maximum FHA loan amounts was based on «real estate bubble» prices that are expected to be significantly lower this year.

After the real estate bubble popped, homes lost a great deal of value — as much as 50 % in some areas of San Luis Obispo County.

2008 was a good time to start a personal finance blog as the economy was tanking, and the real estate bubble had burst.

Real estate is a great asset to use for diversification because it doesn't always move with stocks or bonds (although you do have to watch out for bubbles and down markets, just as you do with any other investment asset class).

This will usually (today's default rates are a counter argument) pay even if real estate is dropping, but with the recent bubble and refinancing, it was a great way to get good returns and occasional capital gains as the notes get paid off early.

We got a housing bubble amid other consumer finance bubbles, and probably a bubble in commercial real estate as well.

But real estate might be just as effective — and that bubble has popped already.