Sentences with phrase «was a housing bubble»

But virtually no one could say if there was a housing bubble, or a dot.com bubble.

Their could be a housing bubble out there (opinion).

There was a housing bubble burst but that was just the blasting cap to all the dynamite built up on it, the junk finance based on housing.

Then there's housing bubble 2.0.

Yes, there's a housing bubble; however, if you follow the retirement dollars, look for the good deals and diversify your areas, you may do better than your friends that are only buying houses in one area.

Then when that burst, the Federal Reserve intentionally created a bubble in housing that was the housing bubble which led to the Great Financial Crisis of» 08.

You say there is housing bubble, a housing crash is imminent.

@matt specific to UK property the issue here is if you don't have any property you have to get it at the high price (I guess in part due to high demand and low availability where needed / wanted)- also some analysts think there is a housing bubble and the prices will fall at some point anyway.

Marginal Revolution says there is / was no housing bubble.

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.

«First of all, there never was a housing bubble.

In Toronto and Vancouver, there might be a housing bubble and home ownership from the height of the bubble can be dangerous.

Now, everyone knew there was a housing bubble.

If that were true, there would never have been a housing bubble.

A new Conference Board of Canada study says there's no housing bubble about to burst and maintains Canadian are having no trouble handling their debt even as it sits close to record levels.

83 % of all Millennial homeowners surveyed say «I believe there will be a housing bubble and price correction in my area in the next two years», compared to just 28 % Millennial non-homeowners and 47 % of all Americans who say the same.

Around the middle of the year, the question of whether or not there was a housing bubble about to make itself felt again, was discussed in the July 2015 Santa Cruz Real Estate Market Report.

The US Housing Market is strong, so if this is a housing bubble, it's a big one.

Not exact matches

The 2007 - 2009 recession was mostly blamed on a housing bubble.

If the housing bubble keeps inflating — and especially if the commodity boom were to come off the boil — the bears may well be proven right.

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Investment adviser Hilliard MacBeth believes we're in a housing bubble, and, worse, that it means many investors are under - diversified

The response of governments in Ottawa, Victoria, Vancouver and Toronto to the threat of a housing bubble has been almost entirely focused on gently squeezing demand rather than encouraging more supply.

The central banker thinks Canada enjoys price stability but house prices are beginning to look bubble - like.

That has encouraged what many are calling a housing bubble and unsustainable consumer debt loads in Canada, among other things.

According to Grantham, the housing market is close to two standard deviations above its historical norm, making the bubble signal clear.

Poloz was at his sunniest when he testified recently to the finance committee in Ottawa — «We don't believe we're in a bubble,» he told the assembled MPs, saying he sees no signs of the speculative activity that typically characterizes a bubble, like people buying multiple houses to flip them.

This isn't the first time that economists are warning of housing bubbles forming around the world.

The bears don't believe Genworth will be picking up the slack because «they too are subject to a parliamentary cap of $ 250 billion,» at least as stated in this article, «The under - the - radar changes that may soon deflate (or pop) the housing bubble.»

This was, in fact, the catalyst that pricked the U.S. housing bubble in 2007.

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.

Obviously, we don't want to return to the lax standards of the housing bubble, nor should taxpayers be put on the hook for poorly underwritten loans.

Director Adam McKay is best known for his outrageous comedy work with Will Ferrell, but here he takes a sobering look at when the housing bubble burst.

But even if the housing bubble continues to inflate for months or years to come, it's high time to recalculate the ownership premium we are willing to pay.

The housing bubble and subsequent meltdown wasn't just about exotic mortgage practices, it was also about a policy mandate to encourage homeownership that got out of hand.

With monthly payments on the order of $ 30 and mobile service at risk, phone owners should be far more likely to stay current on their payment plans than overburdened homeowners at the height of the housing bubble.

The difference can be traced to real estate market trajectories: Over the past decade, while housing bubbles percolated through much of Europe and in North America, home values rose less than 3 % in Germany.

But by talking instead of acting, he also runs the risk becoming another Alan Greenspan, the once infallible guru who infamously stuck to low interest rates and ignored the massive debt and housing bubble he helped create until it was too late.

«Shiller essentially said housing prices don't always go up like [they did during the bubble], so he was taking a contrasting approach,» Dunham says.

But we should be able to find a happy medium between the reckless housing bubble years and today, when few but the most creditworthy can secure a home loan.

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.

It would take a lot to topple Canada's banks, and the country's housing bubbles are too concentrated to trigger a national calamity.

The housing bubbles in Vancouver and Toronto — just like the bubbles in Sydney, Hong Kong and others — are the result of ultra-low interest rates for longer and longer and longer.

The housing bubble, which peaked in 2007, obscured the fact that many Americans had been losing ground since the 1980s, he says.

Two years ago, when Greater Vancouver houses were selling for an average of just $ 1 million, Porter dismissed talk of a Canadian housing bubble by declaring that ««bubble» is perhaps the most overused word since the global financial crisis.»

A report released last week by Swiss bank UBS singled out Vancouver as being at serious risk of a housing bubble.

Cooper similarly argued in 2012 that Canada wasn't suffering from a housing bubble, but rather a «balloon,» the implication apparently being that the latter is slightly more difficult to pop.

Take the housing bubble, for example: The disconnect between average home prices and wage growth had become massive, despite the fact that the fundamental link between the two is as old as time.

But unlike America's latest housing market bubble, which saw the supply of new homes rise rapidly as investors banked on new mortgages, there is no increase in the supply of farmland.

At the same time, Burry, who made a fortune in last decade's financial crisis by betting that the housing bubble would burst, is also gaining a following north of Hollywood, as a Silicon Valley tech investor.