Sentences with phrase «in real estate speculation»

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.

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.

Governor, I think some of your comments around speculation in the Toronto real estate market — of course I live there and feel it every day with agents knocking on my door.

Do you have an idea of the extent of the link between securitization and speculation in the real estate market that contributes to the rising house prices and astronomical sums in securitization at present?

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.

Quantitative easing subsidizes U.S. capital flight, pushing up non-dollar currency exchange rates Quantitative easing may not have set out to disrupt the global trade and financial system or start a round of currency speculation, but that is the result of the Fed's decision in 2008 to keep unpayably high debts from defaulting by re-inflating U.S. real estate and financial markets.

B.C.'s new tax has driven speculation that foreign investors may now be looking to buy properties in Toronto instead, where homes sales in the Greater Toronto Area jumped 21.5 per cent in September, according to Toronto Real Estate Board data released earlier this month.

Overconfidence and the Bank of Japan's loose monetary policy in the mid-to-late 1980s led to aggressive speculation in domestic stocks and real estate, pushing the prices of these assets to previously unimaginable levels.

The elevated values of home prices in recent years resulted from a combination of speculation on perpetually rising real estate values, coupled with reckless lending.

Banks now lend mainly to other financial institutions, hedge funds, corporate raiders, insurance companies and real estate, and engage in their own speculation in foreign currency, interest - rate arbitrage, and computer - driven trading programs.

The general U.S. market may tank due to a variety of factors, such as a combination of international and domestic events, from reports of high speculation in real estate markets to poor economic growth and growing debt.

ALBANY — Last August, a lunch between the top Senate Democratic fundraiser Michael Gianaris and Real Estate Board of New York president John Banks led to speculation that the traditional alliance between developers and Senate Republicans might be eroding in the wake of dust - ups over issues like 421 - a tax credits.

The speculation about the real estate deal and the lieutenant governor's political future led to a rare, testy exchange with reporters at the State Fair in Syracuse last summer, where Duffy was once again filling in for Cuomo.

Speculation about Greenfield's political future began to swirl in May when it was revealed that he had opened a separate state campaign account that had raised large sums from real estate investors including Thor Equities» Joseph Sitt.

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.

So begins The Cloud Sketcher, a passionate tale of love and war and art that ranges from the ice fields of the Arctic Circle at the dawn of the last century to the ruthless world of New York real estate speculation in the 1920s.

The general U.S. market may tank due to a variety of factors, such as a combination of international and domestic events, from reports of high speculation in real estate markets to poor economic growth and growing debt.

Sorry, but the speculation only cut of when the FOMC got rates above a threshold that deterred speculation because positive carry from borrowing to buy real estate disappeared, which finally happened in September of 2005, when the FOMC was still tightening.

This crisis was mainly the result of loose mortgage lending, which spurred rampant speculation and even fraud in U.S. mortgage securities and real estate.

The bank also warned that climbing real estate prices in the Toronto area appear to now be driven, in part, by speculation.

From my angle, the Fed will slowly be forced to recognize that problems developed from speculation in residential real estate, CDOs, overdone arbitrage strategies and private equity are either a) too big to solve through monetary policy, without causing a lot of inflation, or b) they will try to «solve» the problem anyway, and hope that inflation doesn't rise too much.

Truth is data on real estate developers, speculators and flippers is sparse, but, as the report authors cite, «there is a creeping sense that, even in just the past 6 - to - 12 months, speculation is starting to pick up.»

In September, when first the Real Estate division transaction was announced then Indaba filed its 13d, there was speculation that the preferred dividend would be reinstated, arrears paid and the company would be sold (the company announced they were exploring options).

As another measure to tackle housing affordability, beginning in the 2018 tax year, the provincial government will enforce a new annual speculation tax on residential real estate targeted at foreign and domestic homeowners who do not pay income tax in BC.

«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.»

However, with real estate as of late, there has been too much emphasis on capital gains (buying low selling high) or in other words, speculation.

The farms were abandoned in the 1960's when speculation made the land worth more for real estate than farming.

Inspired in part by the SLG's proximity to the housing estate behind it, and the gallery's links with the residents, the works are underpinned by Kuri's reflection on the role of speculation in real estate.

Few could have anticipated the rapacious development Harlem is undergoing today, as real estate investment and speculation displace longtime residents and remake the neighborhood into yet another yuppie frontier, with galleries, as is usually the case, playing their vanguard role in driving up rents.

If last year's overnight whitewashing of graffiti haven 5Pointz in Queens revealed anything, it's that the fleeting form of graffiti tags is as susceptible as ever to the whims of property owners and real estate speculation.

In conjunction with this show, another exhibition called The Real Estate Show Extended / Berlin: Group exhibition on the subject of Gentrification, Real Estate Speculation and Selling out the City was presented at Kunstpunkt Berlin.

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When asked about the cause of these fires, the scientist said it was in part real estate speculation and in part the lumber industy which first planted the wrong trees and then basically gave up on the woods alltogether when the market collapsed (or something like that).

A recently completed passive solar museum in Ordos, China stands in a billion - dollar «ghost town,» one of many built on a wave of real estate speculation that some economists say may crash soon.

Extensive top - of - market real estate speculation arises in regions that, long range models predict, will see relatively minor adverse impacts.

The conventional economic wisdom is that financial speculation, mostly in real estate combined with a decade of overspending and a lack of savings in general, led to a bubble in economic growth (e.g. GDP) that then popped resulting in a recession.

If offshore speculation is driving up real estate values in Vancouver and Toronto to the point where our legal assistants are moving to Edmonton, our young associates are moving to the far - flung suburbs, our children can't afford to live in the neighbourhoods they grew up in, and we may not have anyone rich enough to buy our own homes when its time to sell, perhaps some thought should be given to cooling down that market.

It was precisely in the last months of 2013 that real estate speculation began to decline in China thanks to the threat (ultimately carried out) of higher property taxes.

In April 1974 the Ontario government caught the real estate industry by surprise with the Land Speculation Tax.

«This is not a time for speculation of what she should've done, but a time of reminder for what we all need to be doing to assure safety in this industry,» Brian Copeland, GRI, CIPS, of Village Real Estate Services in Nashville, Tenn., writes on Facebook.

«It's clear that rampant speculation on real estate is driving up prices in Vancouver.

As citizen anger over foreign investment and skyrocketing real estate prices boils over in Metro Vancouver, Mayor Gregor Robertson has called on Premier Christy Clark to intervene in property markets with a «speculation tax.»

(Sunday, May 24/15) Both Mayor Gregor Robertson and uber condo marketer Bob Rennie, a key Robertson supporter, have come out in favour of imposing a housing speculation tax as a means to dampen the influence of investors in Vancouver's red - hot real estate market.

As economist John Tuccilllo recently said, the number one trend in America right now is skepticism and the result has been an increased degree of speculation in all types of decision making... including selecting a real estate agent or company to work with.

Canadian housing markets have boomed in recent years with extremely high levels of starts, sales and price gains, but the report's authors say «the country's real estate markets have generally lacked the degree of speculation that dominated past boom - bust cycles and the excesses have been far less than those evident in the U.S.»

«Most of our optimism stems from the fact that the global real estate community learned some hard lessons since the early 1990s, limiting speculation and controlling overbuilding in the ensuing years,» said Jacques N. Gordon, Ph.D., international director of research for the company.

There has been speculation as to whether the lease accounting changes will have a broader impact on corporate leasing decisions, as well as a shift in preference for owning rather than leasing real estate.

«The housing market today contrasts sharply with predictions a decade ago that the Internet would «disintermediate» real estate agents, including speculation that NAR membership would fall in half.

Overall it seems the English council tax / property tax system favors landlords over homeowners and does little to discourage speculation or «parking» money in English real estate by foreigners or by anyone else.