The present reward structure makes unproductive activities such as real
estate speculation more attractive to investors than innovation.
Not exact matches
If real
estate speculation continues to boil, especially in Greater Toronto, Morneau's measures «will force
more volume out of the traditional banking space and... into this unregulated space,» predicts credit market analyst Ben Rabidoux, a principal at North Cove Advisors.
Instead, we are seeing an even
more extreme version of what negative real interest rates in the US produced: leveraged asset
speculation, particularly in the biggest asset class, residential real
estate.
It's embarrassing that after a crisis that nobody saw, government policy continues pouring on
more gas to fuel
more speculation to get things (stocks, real
estate, debt) back to the same place we were, or maybe even worse now...
If there's anything
more complicated than the global forces of thermal expansion, ice sheet melt and ocean circulation that contribute to worldwide sea - level rise, it might be the forces of real
estate speculation and the race - based historical housing patterns that color present - day gentrification in Miami.
«The sources of demand that are pushing prices higher are many-fold and the sources of investment
speculation... in the real
estate part of our economy are many-fold and
more domestic than foreign.»
The farms were abandoned in the 1960's when
speculation made the land worth
more for real
estate than farming.
Thanks to
more stringent loan underwriting guidelines, the days of pure real
estate speculation are behind us.
The various roles Vogt has played in that environment for
more than three decades has led to
speculation that this won't be the last the Canadian real
estate industry sees of him, in some capacity.