A shift of just 10 % up or down in
residential housing prices might touch off just such another cataclysm, so it's worth understanding just how this «arcane - sounding» market works.
In this environment, the continuing fall of
residential housing prices another 10 - 15 % will lead to more bank failures, and failure of a few related institutions.
My article deals with what drives
residential housing prices, and sadly, it comes to rather ordinary conclusions.
With the bank stress tests, the adverse scenario posited higher unemployment, lower
residential housing prices, and lower real GDP than «baseline» estimates.
We're not done with the fall in
residential housing prices yet, and the difficulties at FHA are just another demonstration of that.
With
residential housing prices sagging it may persist for a long while, until the Fed debases the currency such that debtors can pay back their debts in devalued terms.
Graph: London
residential housing price index versus FTSE 100 share index versus SA house price index 1996 - 2016
Not exact matches
Residential building groups need to admit that the «first home buyer» scheme was subjected to abuse and artificially increased
house prices.
But the
residential construction industry has remained sick since the bursting of the
housing bubble in the late 2000s, even as home
prices recovered.
The above series is Statistics Canada's New
Housing Price Index (NHPI), which «measures changes over time in the contractors» selling
prices of new
residential houses, where detailed specifications pertaining to each
house remain the same between two consecutive periods.»
The stricter
residential mortgage lending regulations introduced by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions were aimed at reducing risk in the market amid high
housing prices.
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.
Things improved after that, as the mortgage cost of purchasing of a
residential property gradually fell all the way to 297 weeks in 2001, mainly as a result of stagnating nominal
housing prices during that time period.
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.
I believe that Canada's high
house prices in relation to incomes, combined with record household debt levels and overinvestment in
residential construction, will cause a severe correction in the real estate market.
Dhar suggests that the recent moderation in
house price growth «has reignited risk that China's property sector may retrench again», suggesting that the outlook for
residential construction, hence commodity demand, will remain weak in the year ahead.
Mike James, president of Coldwell Banker
Residential Brokerage, cites a more balanced
housing market as the main reason for the
price decline.
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
These
prices continue to rise more rapidly than building - materials
prices, suggesting that profit margins and / or labour costs in the
residential construction sector have increased in response to the recent strength in demand for
residential construction work and the rise in
prices of established
houses.
Professor Robert Shiller, Professor of Economics at Yale University, and David Blitzer, Managing Director and Chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices, discussed the overall health of the U.S.
residential housing market and those factors that could impact the pace of recent home
price increases during a live S&P Dow Jones Indices -LSB-...]
When I wrote my piece on the
residential housing bubble at RealMoney back in May of 2005, I did not focus on the high
prices much; instead, I focused on the financing issues:
Canada's
residential real estate market is now cooling, whereas American
housing prices are finally back on the rise.
The movement of benchmark interest rates, coupled with significantly lower lending volumes and surging
prices for collateral, could make Q3 ’17 a very interesting — and treacherous — earnings period for financials with exposure to MSRs and other aspects of
residential housing finance.
Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) publishes Quotable Value Limited's (the largest property valuation and information company in New Zealand)
house price time - series of all
residential properties starting in Q4 1989.
A report released by the city Independent Budget Office has raised questions about the potential effects of the so - called «mansion tax,» a proposed part of Mayor Bill de Blasio's affordable
housing strategy that would levy a 2.5 percent surcharge on the sale
price over a threshold of $ 2 million for
residential properties.
The
price tage is not only related to the cinematic history of the
house, but also because it's a «
residential masterpiece.»
With well - established
residential areas and continuous construction of new homes in more economically viable neighbourhoods, Guelph is a city that offers a chance on the
housing ladder for people and families across all
price brackets.
I believe they will still do that, largely because of the effect that falling
housing prices will have on the credit of the
residential mortgage market, and not just Subprime, but Alt - A, and Prime loans as well.
Yet, the push to redevelop the downtown core into a commercial and
residential hot spot is anticipated to pull
housing prices up, even if continued oil
prices are low or stagnant.
Onerous municipal regulations for
residential development are reducing the supply of new homes (
houses, condos, townhouses, etc.) in Canada's biggest cities and contributing to rising home
prices, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian policy think - tank.
Now we face a still - overlevered
residential real estate sector with a lot of the market inverted, where people owe more than the
house is worth, though pockets on the low end of
prices show recovery in some areas of the US.
Residential construction and renovation are at peak levels while cheap credit is driving
housing prices up.
The volatility of
house prices leads to opportunity for investing in
residential real estate.
The future of the
residential housing market continues to look bright, with more than 88 % of markets projecting an upward trend in average property
price.
While rumours are true — Edmonton's
residential real estate activity was down by 10.8 %, year - over-year in February 2018 — this needs to be balanced with the city's rising average
house prices, which were up 3.9 %, year - over-year.
And finally, the collapse in
housing prices was so severe — nationally,
residential real estate fell by over one third in value, peak - to - trough — that it would take at least a 50 % jump just to restore
prices to the nutty levels they achieved in 2006.
The oversupply in
residential housing will cause
housing prices to lag behind the
price rises in the remainder of the economy.
We have an overhang in
residential housing that will require
prices to go below equilibrium in order to clear.
Three reasons: There are still significant areas of concern that have not unwound yet —
residential housing exposure will increase as
housing prices fall further, including lawsuits which wil...
When debt was too high for cash flows from average American households to afford
residential housing, the
prices of
housing began to fall, and the foreclosure process began, as foreclosures happen once someone is inverted on their mortgage.
Because Apollo focuses on
residential loans, the already perceptible rise in
housing prices seems likely to further boost the net asset value and the shares.
TORONTO, July 7 / CNW / - Canada's
residential real estate market will start to slow in the second half of 2010 after two quarters of strong
price appreciation and sales activity, according to the Royal LePage House Price Survey and Market Survey Forecast released t
price appreciation and sales activity, according to the Royal LePage
House Price Survey and Market Survey Forecast released t
Price Survey and Market Survey Forecast released today.
The
residential real estate in market in Halifax saw year - over-year
price gains across all three
housing types surveyed for the second quarter of this year.
there is a glut of
housing (many empty) because of overbuilding... because everyone saw the «rapidly rising
prices» of
residential or rental real estate and wanted a piece of this HIGH RETURN, LOW RISK investment... add to this the banks relaxing credit standards and issuing mortgages... because, hey, real estate just keeps going up, up, up... and with that leverage, etc..
Housing values in the Royal LePage
House Price Survey are Royal LePage opinions of fair market value in each location, based on local data and market knowledge provided by Royal LePage
residential real estate experts.
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