Sentences with phrase «of house price rises»

Surely the tax free nature of the investment is one important driver of house price rises.

I do think Portfolio.com is on the right track by looking at the amount of the housing price rise that has happened.

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The Teranet - National Bank index of house prices in the country's 11 largest metropolitan regions rose 6.1 % in November, yet only four cities — Toronto, Hamilton, Vancouver and Victoria — actually posted gains.

Western Australia's house price index has risen 2.7 per cent in the June quarter, in line with the national upward trend, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said today.

On average, 87 % of the 150 housing markets tracked by NAR experienced rising home prices in 2016, up from an average of 75 % in 2014.

If, in contrast, the Fed were to raise rates now, before the economic recovery is fully entrenched, house prices might resume declines, the values of businesses large and small would drop, and, critically, unemployment would likely start to rise again.

Debt and rising housing prices are some of the reasons.

Seattle's City Council on Friday released new draft legislation that would tax large employers in order to raise $ 75 million next year to counter the effects of rising rents and house prices.

In tandem, if wages do not rise at the rate of house - price growth, then buying a property becomes more and more unaffordable.

In recent years, Ottawa has implemented several measures to restrict mortgage lending in the face of rising house prices.

The rapid rise in house prices in Toronto and Vancouver has caught the attention of the Bank of Canada, which declared two months ago that they were not sustainable.

The contractor is also a prime beneficiary of the White House's defense budget increase, as well as new arms deals with the likes of Saudi Arabia: Lockheed's stock price has risen some 26 % over the past year, handily beating the S&P, while revenue jumped 17 % in 2016.

Over the last 20 years, in spite of the housing crash, you would have done better with real estate if you bought in one of the 20 U.S. cities where prices have risen the most.

Some bad economic news this morning: New home sales rose slightly in April, but median housing prices fell sharply, as did the number of new unemployment claims, according to the Wall Street Journal.

«If there really was a shortage of housing in the UK, rents like house prices, would be rising well in excess of the CPI, whereas they have broadly risen in line over the last ten years.»

The U.S. housing sector, typically a harbinger of solid upturns, is going gangbusters: dwelling prices have risen for more than nine straight months and housing starts are climbing strongly.

This is familiar ground for the SocGen strategist, who argued back in April that the British government could «concrete over the entire length and breadth of the UK and house prices would still rise» arguing that Britain doesn't actually have a shortage of housing, just a big imbalance in supply and demand.

The company's latest House Price Survey, released Tuesday, found that most regions showed healthy year - over-year price growth, with the average price of a home in Canada rising between 2.5 per cent and 5.4 perPrice Survey, released Tuesday, found that most regions showed healthy year - over-year price growth, with the average price of a home in Canada rising between 2.5 per cent and 5.4 perprice growth, with the average price of a home in Canada rising between 2.5 per cent and 5.4 perprice of a home in Canada rising between 2.5 per cent and 5.4 per cent

«A stress test that claims that if the Dow falls by 60 %, the unemployment rate rises to 12 %, housing prices decline substantially more than they did during the 2008 recession, GDP declines by 6 - 7 % — and that all of that can happen and no bank will be in serious financial trouble or have any problem of being undercapitalized or illiquid — I kind of think says more about itself than it says about the health of the banking system.»

As people flee San Francisco and Silicon Valley in search of cheaper housing — heading to places like Stockton, Oakland and Sacramento — prices in those second - tier markets are rising.

(If you thought housing prices rose faster than 4.7 percent per year under Clinton, you may be mistaking his presidency for George W. Bush's; during the first seven years of the Bush administration, housing prices grew by almost 8 percent annually.)

Mortgage payments as a percentage of income (MPPI) rose 0.6 points, as a 6.6 % increase in house prices outweighed lower mortgage rates and a higher average median income.

Whatever is the current cause of the rise of prices in the housing market, when computed as the mortgage cost in labour time in terms of the average weekly salary, residential properties, with the exception of the 1988 - 1991 period, are now clearly less affordable for middle - class Canadians than they were for the last five decades.

The Congressional Budget Office defines asset bubbles as: «An economic development in which the price of a class of physical or financial assets (such as houses or securities) rises to a level that appears to be unsustainable and well above the assets» value as determined by economic fundamentals.

The figure shows clearly that the cash cost of a residential property in terms of weeks of labour time remained roughly constant all the way from 1970 to 1986, at which point housing prices in Canada (and in particular in the Toronto area) rose drastically during the next three years.

Demand for housing credit is up, as are house prices, and purchases of some investment goods by firms rose mid year.

Rising housing prices raise the cost of living, while rising stock and bond prices increase the cost of buying a retirement income — leaving pension funds unable to make good on their proRising housing prices raise the cost of living, while rising stock and bond prices increase the cost of buying a retirement income — leaving pension funds unable to make good on their prorising stock and bond prices increase the cost of buying a retirement income — leaving pension funds unable to make good on their promises.

In Canada in the period since the global financial crisis, the most concerning vulnerabilities have been in the household sector — notably the combination of rising indebtedness and elevated house prices.

There exists a number of indices that look at the price of housing by deflating the nominal dollar price of a house by the consumer price index (CPI) to get an idea of how fast housing prices are rising relative to the general rise in prices of consumer goods.

Indeed, the strong growth of investor housing loans has driven the growth in household debt (as a share of disposable incomes) over recent years and contributed to a rise in both housing prices and dwelling construction.

From about 1945 to mid-1980, families were able to ride a wave of rising house prices.

For example, the prices of secondary education and housing have been increasing much more rapidly than the prices of other goods and services; meanwhile fuel prices have risen, fallen, risen again and fallen again — each time very sharply — in the past ten years.

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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?

(c) suburban and exurban housing prices have been flat since 2008 in metro Vancouver, whereas (like in Toronto) prices have risen in the inner core, but I'm not sure I'd attribute that to the carbon tax as much as people deciding to value their time over the size of their home (and value the walkable, transit - oriented lifestyle).

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.

The world is awash in cheap debt, and whether we're talking about wealthy foreigners or local residents desperate not to be shut out of the market, the siren call of fast - rising house prices is too powerful to ignore.

While affluent knowledge, professional and creative workers have been squeezed, it is lower - paid blue - collar and service workers who bear the brunt of rising housing prices.

Rising house prices have shielded the reality of increasing ownership costs, but households can't live on asset appreciation, unless they sell, take a reverse mortgage, or a line of credit against their house.

This gain reflects continued increases in housing wealth due to rising house prices in many areas of the country, as well as steady gains in the stock market.

Rising house prices and the accompanying wealth effect, courtesy of ballooning equity lines of credit, have kept the economy from faltering as business spending retrenches and exports disappoint — last year real estate was by far the largest contributor to GDP in seven of 10 provinces, including B.C. and Ontario.

Rising housing prices mean larger and larger debts extracting interest out of the economy.

By median value, house prices rose by 1.4 % in large tier one cities in December, outpacing a gain of 0.3 % for smaller tier two cities and flat growth in smaller tier three and four cities.

House prices in Dallas have risen steadily over the last couple of years.

Oakland Housing Market Forecast Home prices in Oakland rose steadily, and significantly, over the last couple of years.

One recent forecast for the Phoenix housing market suggests that home prices will rise at a more modest, but historically average, pace of around 3.5 % over the next year.

The housing - market recovery is tenuous and probably far too reliant on central - bank stimulus, but we'll take rising home prices over falling home prices any day of the week.

Meanwhile, if there has been any panic in the market, it's been among house hunters afraid of missing out on a chance to buy before prices rise higher — a sure sign of froth.

According to JLL's latest white paper - Up, Up and Away: The Rise and Rise of Hong Kong's Residential Market, JLL expects Hong Kong's housing prices to grow 15 % in the coming 30 months given strong demand from owner - occupiers

In its 2017 housing market forecast for the state, the California Association of REALTORS ® projected that the median home price statewide would rise by 4.6 % in 2017, compared to a gain of 5.4 % in 2016 and 6.6 % in 2015.