Consider Donald Kohn, a genuinely bright guy trying to spin the idea that the Fed is not to blame for
residential real estate speculation.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
Ontario's new
real estate cooling off plan has the following changes: 1) 15 % Non-Resident
Speculation Tax on
residential single family dwellings purchased by non-citizens or non-permanent residents that are...