I «missed» the real
estate bubble because I was too busy being a «genius» in the IT business.
Not exact matches
But I guess it makes sense
because after the NASDAQ
bubble burst in March 2000, real
estate started taking off partly
because the Fed aggressively lowered interest rates, and partly
because equity investors looked at hard assets to park their money.
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.
But despite all this, the important thing is that the real
estate bubble would have developed in any event, simply
because of the exponential financial dynamics at work and the increasing tax favoritism for real
estate — taxing labor and industry rather than land rent.
MH: well the deeper cause is the fact there was a real
estate bubble to begin with and the reason people wanted to take out mortgages now was that they thought that we had better buy a home now before the price rises even further and they didn't realize that the reason prices were rising were
because the banks were making easier and easier credit.
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).
Idk if that is indicative of a real
estate bubble, but I would venture that
because of the high volume of young professionals moving to the area (this is even more true for Huntsville) that an investment in apartments or town home style housing would be a safe (r) bet.
And
because they're fully - paid, you don't have to worry about another real
estate bubble or depression.
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.
Those are kind of the signs you start seeing in an economy in the late stages of a
bubble, where a state - owned enterprise starts building real
estate projects
because it's almost like you can't lose money doing this.
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.
Frankly, if I were shorting China today, it would not be
because of the real
estate bubble, but
because of the pollution
bubble that is increasingly enveloping some of its biggest cities.
Some might think it's risky to invest in real
estate or foreclosures right now
because of the
bubble burst, but now is by far the best time in history.
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).
In the face of this, residential real
estate prices continue to rise, particularly in the hot coastal markets, which tells me that the price momentum can continue a little while longer until it fails
because there is no incremental liquidity available to expand the
bubbles.
To start with, the leading reason to buy property in San Diego is
because our real
estate market is strong and there is no sign of a housing
bubble.
And just as with the modern real
estate bubble, prices rose fast largely
because a spectator's tool was in play.
And
because they're fully - paid, you don't have to worry about another real
estate bubble or depression.
I think the Inflation - Adjusted
Bubble View (1995 baseline) is the best view of the Case - Shiller Home Price Index
because it tells the whole story from the beginning before the Great Real
Estate Bubble started, and it tells the real story with real dollars, it doesn't let inflation skew the story.
Really bad timing
because the real
estate bubble did burst, and for the next 2 - 3 years I was quite bored, slightly dejected, and doing little to nothing with myself.
That's
because lots of homeowners in these communities are underwater, meaning they purchased homes during the real
estate bubble and now owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth.