Sentences with phrase «of housing price growth»

We expect house price growth to moderate a bit to 4.4 percent in 2016, still well above the long - run sustainable rate of house price growth.»

We expect house price growth to moderate a bit to 4.4 percent in 2016, still well above the long - run sustainable rate of house price growth.»

Widespread House Price Gains Have Accompanied Accommodative Financial Conditions (Diffusion Index of House Price Growth and Global Financial Conditions)

With the housing market on the verge of the spring home - buying season, this is good news in an environment where historically low mortgage rates will help offset the pace of house price growth and lack of for - sale inventory in many markets.»

«As we begin to evaluate home prices in the first quarter, we will monitor whether new headwinds — higher mortgage rates and changes in tax laws — will lead to any moderation in the rate of house price growth.»

Not exact matches

Some of the possible excess in house prices could in the interval be tempered by factors such as income growth, regulatory changes and modest price corrections along the way.

The central bank maintained its long - standing prediction that regions experiencing elevated house price growth, such as British Columbia and Ontario, will face localized risks, but the most likely scenario remains a «soft landing» and stabilization of debt - to - income ratios.

A report from CIBC World Markets recently predicted the stock market might fall 10 % — 15 % this summer due to a confluence of factors, including a weak U.S. housing market, increasing fiscal strain, expensive oil prices, sluggish corporate earnings growth and disruptions in global supply chains stemming from the Japanese crisis.

«Additional government support for home ownership, especially in the context of housing markets experiencing rapid price growth and restricted housing supply, are likely to be counterproductive,» Morneau wrote.

Perth house prices were up slightly last month as the pace of growth across the nation's capital cities showed signs of slowing.

«Overall, annual house price growth nationally is most likely expected to slow to 1 - 4 % by the end of 2017.

Montreal also fell into that category, but CMHC warned it might have to revise that assessment, given the rapid growth of house prices in some neighbourhoods.

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

«In line with the 2013 norm,» June price growth was driven by single - detached and semi-detached houses, particularly in the city of Toronto, the board said in a report Thursday.

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

In December realtor.com ranked Las Vegas as the best housing market going into 2018, with a projected price growth of 6.9 %.

An uptick in commodity prices, combined with two years of supply cost cuts, created some room to get financial houses in order and invest in production growth in 2017.

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.

Oversupply: An oversupply of used cars, multi-family housing units in some markets and other segments is further contributing to decelerating growth in prices.

Nationwide house prices increased strongly for several years up to late 2003, reaching a peak growth rate of around 20 per cent in that year.

At least some of the growth in housing prices since the middle of last year was a bit of a catch - up from a period of weakness.

Canada currently supplies over 1/3 of U.S. lumber consumption and if the current rate of growth in housing starts continues, the U.S. will need to increasingly rely on higher - priced imported lumber from outside of North America to fulfill their needs if they impose a quota restriction on Canadian lumber.

If anything should be clear from the bubbles of recent years, the greatest risks are not when prices are depressed, the economy is weak, and investors are frightened, but rather when prices are elevated and an unendingly positive outlook for technology, or housing, or global growth, or private equity, or emerging markets, or commodities seems all but certain.

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Latest data from Australian Bureau of Statistics show house price growth for the eight capital cities fell to 1 per cent in the December quarter compared to 5 per cent for the year.

And by that we mean bring an end to double - digit price gains, bring about a steep correction in house prices to levels the city's lowly middle - class incomes can afford, bring about an end to staggering household debt levels and ultimately, bring about the end of housing as the economy's engine of growth?

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.

«Overlooked in the comparison of income growth and unadjusted house price growth is that a change in household income is not the only factor that influences how much home one can afford to buy,» Fleming said.

Both Realtor.com and Zillow have predicted that Sacramento will be one of the hottest housing markets in 2017, with price growth well above the national average.

Home buyers today have historically high levels of house - purchasing power, and that's one important reason why, even as unadjusted house price growth exceeds household income growth, the talk of an affordability crisis is over-stated for now.»

A new forecast for the Los Angeles housing market suggests that home prices could rise considerably slower over the next year than the previous 12 months, settling into a historically average rate of growth.

Earlier this year, Zillow published a list of what it felt would be the ten hottest housing markets of 2017, in terms of price growth.

The adjustment in the Australian housing market during 2004 should assist prospects for sustainable economic growth, with the decline in house prices and new lending during much of the year alleviating the overheating which had previously been apparent in that part of the economy.

In many cities, home - price gains have outpaced wage and income growth over the last couple of years, and this kind of trend can lead to housing affordability issues.

Surveys and official data indicate flat or falling house prices across the UK; according to the Nationwide and Halifax surveys, house prices increased at an annualised rate of 1.8 per cent over the past three months, compared with annualised growth in excess of 20 per cent in the first half of 2004.

In large part this has been driven by growth in share prices and house prices, although the demutualisation of the AMP Society and capital gains from the first stage of the Telstra float provided an additional boost to available wealth last year.

The run - up in credit growth and the associated boom in house prices in recent years presented two implications for the economy: they tended to boost growth in the short term, but carried the risk of a damaging correction if they continued too long.

They're often portrayed as a major cause of rapid housing - price growth, spurring impassioned political rhetoric accompanied by targeted taxes on their properties.

If the whole thing — the rises in stock prices, in corporate earnings, in the housing market, even in job growth — is driven solely by the flood of money, or whether five years of zero - interest rates and trillions of dollars in bond purchases have succeeded at getting a more resilient economic engine for the United States up and running.

In 2008 to 2009, Canadian housing was relatively cheap compared to the U.S., but after years of breakneck price growth north of the border and declines down south, that's no longer the case.

Property values rose in 40 out of 54 countries in the Knight Frank Global House Price Index, the most since 2007, but Europe is lagging behind, with two - speed growth emerging

In addition, it is likely that lenders did not account for the risk of contagion in housing markets — that weak house price growth would significantly increase the likelihood that borrowers would default.

But he stresses that he did this analysis on his own because he's been asked so many times lately what could happen to the housing market — which has already suffered a slump in sales and an easing of growth in prices since tougher mortgage lending rules were introduced last summer — if interest rates inch up from historic lows.

Slowing United States property sales had little impact on house prices in the last three months of 2015, which showed continued growth.

According to Knight Frank's latest Global House Price Index, worldwide home prices recorded their weakest annual performance since the depths of the recession in 2009, recording only 0.9 % growth in the year to March 2012.

The trend lines (dashed) indicate that the stabilization of price growth shown in Figure 1 coincides with house prices returning to their long term trend path.

Though most of the explosion in the Bakken region is already played out, and though a large portion of the oil workers in the region have already found permanent housing situations, I expect the growth in the Price / Book multiple coupled with steady earnings (if not growing earnings) to secure the safety of this investment for the near future.

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An additional complication for Australian monetary policy at present is posed by the rapid growth of credit and its flow - through into strongly rising housing prices.

A major contributor to the weakening has been a drop - off in the pace of household spending, as wages growth and the rate of increase in housing prices have both slowed.