Sentences with phrase «weak house price growth»
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
But low interest rates and weak prices have made homeownership more affordable than it's been in decades, the report noted, and several strong months of private - sector job growth in early 2011 are «encouraging signs of a housing market rebound.»