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And this story illustrates perfectly the whole problem of the real estate bubble of the past 10 years: Even with the enormous «discount» of the auction prices, none of these units..

PeerStreet is backed by serious investors including Andreessen Horowitz (early Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb investors), and Michael Barry, the man who saw the real estate bubble of 2007 and profited handsomely and profiled in Michael Lewis's book The Big Short (and portrayed in the movie by Christian Bale).

Japan flooded its economy with credit, lowering interest rates and fueling the world's largest real estate bubble of the 1980s.

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Here's hoping that when the tech bubble inevitably bursts, the site will make another one comparing real - estate prices to the crummiest places on the planet, like perhaps this decrepit oil rig in the middle of the sea.

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.

The house - price bubble, combined with record levels of household debt, represent the biggest threat facing the Canadian economy; the sooner real - estate markets mellow and Canadians lower their debt burdens, the better.

According to UBS, certain cities have seen prices rise at rates that are potentially not sustainable - and eight of these financial centers are at risk of having real estate bubbles that could eventually deflate.

But evidence from around the globe loudly demonstrates the hazards of debt - fuelled real estate bubbles.

Here we see that folks with FICO scores above 720 are receiving the majority of new loans, whereas in 2000, before the real estate market was close to bubble territory, the distribution was much more even.

The difference can be traced to real estate market trajectories: Over the past decade, while housing bubbles percolated through much of Europe and in North America, home values rose less than 3 % in Germany.

Outgoing Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said U.S. stocks and commercial real estate prices are elevated but stopped short of saying those markets are in a bubble.

Instead, the collapse of stock market and real estate bubbles forced its government to commence one of history's greatest Keynesian experiments.

And despite warnings of a Canadian real estate bubble (including our own), there are hundreds more planned.

Having accurate and timely information gives policymakers a chance to «chart a course that reduces any potential risk of a real estate bubble,» he said.

You hear a lot of talk these days about the commercial real estate bubble, and how it'll be the next to burst.

«Suggestions of an overheated real estate market and bubble continue within the mainstream dialogue, but are becoming less frequent,» he added.

Relatively easy liquidity has fuelled investment in China's notoriously frothy real estate sector - property investment jumped 22.8 percent in January and February combined from 2012 - pushing up home prices and triggering hawkish talk on property tightening from Beijing policymakers to contain the risk of an asset bubble rapidly inflating.

While Schuler would argue that the damage of the inevitable bubble bursting will be limited to companies that have received, or want to receive, funding and to the private investors and those funds invested in them, there is always the potential for a much wider impact on employment and real estate values.

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.

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.

The real estate bubble in Canada won't collapse and prices will keep a growth rate of 6 % for the next 21,054,656,706,543,581 years.

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.

China appears to be defying that pattern, but the implosion of its real estate bubble may prove it to be no exception.

According to UBS, certain cities have seen prices rise at rates that are potentially not sustainable — and eight of these financial centers are at risk of having real estate bubbles that could eventually deflate.

I have never talked to her parents directly (they speak very little English), but my girlfriend has clued me into a variety of factors and issues that help to explain what looks to be a Chinese real estate bubble.

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.

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.

The technology bubble of the late 1990s and more recent real - estate bubble represented clear examples of such behavior.

The recent stock market and real estate bubbles are much like pyramid schemes in the sense that what is bidding up stock and property prices is an exponential inflow of new money from pension plans and mutual funds (for shares) and bank credit (for real estate).

Yet by the late 1980s, when the real estate bubble was still being inflated, household and corporate replacement costs of buildings left land with only about 28 percent of total property values.

Mr. Bernanke thus rejected over three hundred years of economic orthodoxy in testifying recently that the Fed was blameless in fueling the real estate bubble by slashing interest rates after 2001.

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.

It's only a matter of time until the dividend bubble follows the gold bubble, real estate bubble, and tech bubble of previous generations.

More evidence of a bubble in Chinese Real Estate.

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.

And although the median home price is definitely on the high - end, many cities throughout Oregon are experiencing rising prices — a possible sign of the next real estate bubble.

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.

Of course China has a real estate bubble, so let's skip the foreplay and get to the heart of the matter: What will it mean for investorOf course China has a real estate bubble, so let's skip the foreplay and get to the heart of the matter: What will it mean for investorof the matter: What will it mean for investors?

The essence of the global financial bubble is that savings are diverted to inflate the stock market, bond market and real estate prices rather than to build new factories and employ more labor.

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.

An alternative definition of a Bubble Economy therefore focuses on asset - price inflation — rising stock market, bond market and real estate prices in the face of an economy - wide debt deflation.

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.

Often enough, when excess savings are high, they flow into real estate and stock markets, perhaps even setting off bubbles, with overinvestment in real estate an almost inevitable consequence of rapidly rising housing prices.

A bitcoin real estate transaction is the confluence of two extremely bubble - prone fields.

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).

Monetary policy will continue to be very accommodative and any type of real estate bubble scenario will be well managed.

The level of fraud is astronomical there, never mind the absurd real estate bubble and the distortions that the govt is engaging in.

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.