Sentences with phrase «largest housing bubble»

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The firm argues that median house prices should be no more than three times larger than gross median household incomes to remain affordable, and to prevent housing bubbles.

As you can see, the gap between what the average Americans can afford and the median sales price is much larger than it had been prior to the housing bubble.

Let's look at large valuations over the last 30 years; the tech job bubble with crazy bonuses, the tech startup valuation bubble, the housing bubble.

I don't think anyone, including Dean, would swear by those numbers, but I don't think there's much of a case that the housing bubble was worse because it was a lot larger.

-- Not because it was bigger: according to established bubble - ologist Dean Baker, the 1990s dot.com bubble was, if anything, larger than the 2000s housing bubbles: he has the former at $ 8 - $ 10 trillion of bubble - induced wealth and the latter at $ 8 trillion.

the real estate industry's largest lobby groups, Mortgage Professionals Canada, released a report last month analyzing the state of the country's housing market, it found, to absolutely no one's surprise, zero evidence of a bubble that would warrant political intervention.

When one of the real estate industry's largest lobby groups, Mortgage Professionals Canada, released a report last month analyzing the state of the country's housing market, it found, to absolutely no one's surprise, zero evidence of a bubble that would warrant political intervention.

Chapman expects it will develop into a prolonged recession caused largely by the bursting of the housing bubble and the weakness in the dollar attributable to the United States» large federal budget deficit and international trade imbalance.

I won't take a larger position at this time because I'm scared that increasing rates will pop the Toronto / Vancouver housing bubble, which will in turn impact the banks.

This development is particularly troubling since the housing bubble's height was stimulated in large part by sub-prime lending to homeowners with marginal credit.

We are on the edge of a bubble larger than the one we experienced less than a decade ago as housing prices race back down to where it is affordable and sees demand from new buyers.

Saving parts of the economy from the popping of each asset price bubble can leave, and make, the entire economy more prone to larger and potentially more - damaging price bubbles - such as the housing price bubble.

By and large, Texas avoided the housing bubble that recently burst over the rest of the United States.

Unfortunately, the UK was perhaps the most eager participant in this boom, with the most indebted households, the biggest housing bubble, the most over-leveraged banks and the largest budget deficit of them all.

When the bursting housing bubble made it seem as if mortgage fraud perped by parties larger than brokers, bank clerks, and appraisers might finally matter.

As your kids run around the house in various stages of undress before bath time, pour bubble bath into the tub and watch as the bubbles grow larger and larger.

In Canada, home ownership is playing an increasingly large role in determining how wealthy we are — thanks to our seemingly bubble - proof housing boom.

The collateralized debt obligation in particular enabled financial institutions to obtain investor funds to finance subprime and other lending, extending or increasing the housing bubble and generating large fees.

Most economists agree that the initial trigger of the crisis was the housing bubble, driven by low interest rates moving the housing prices higher, which peaked in early 2006 and starting to drop in 2006/2007, with the Case — Shiller home price index reporting its largest price drop in its history on Dec 30, 2008.

The rise in Vancouver's average housing prices compared with the growth in average wages, rents and other economic factors make it the most likely to experience a sudden downward correction compared with 17 other large cities around the globe, according to the UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index released this week.

If 2007 bubble was the largest bubble, what does it make the house prices we have today?

Imitation was a large part of the dot - com bubble and the housing bubble.

Moreover, the mortgages to which these resets will apply are primarily those originated late in the housing bubble, at the highest prices, and therefore having the largest probable loss.

These high - risk loans led to a large number of new homebuyers, which drove up housing prices, which led to people borrowing against their homes and eventually, the housing «bubble» would burst.

In other words, the U.S. housing bubble was caused in large part by the buildup of savings in emerging market economies, especially China, accumulated from their large trade surpluses.

Isn't Canada Mortgage and Housing the ultimate Canadian Institution as the gatekeeper with the largest gate who would or should discourage a housing Housing the ultimate Canadian Institution as the gatekeeper with the largest gate who would or should discourage a housing housing bubble!

Home prices in 16 of the top 50 largest metropolitan areas — which contain one - third of the nation's housing stock — have moved past bubble - era peaks.

We really became landlords because our house fell in value after the housing bubble crash and we moved into a larger home for our family and were able to get a foreclosure at a great price.

Olsen attributed the decrease in large part to the easing of credit standards over the last few years, as well as a generally stronger set of applicants since the housing bubble burst.