The Housing Bubble Blog

It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "If you see a Houston realtor with a big grin on his or her face, they’ve probably just cashed their commission check for August. The Houston Association of Realtors is posting sales figures for the month, making for a 27th consecutive month of gains...

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Bloomberg reports on China. "Matthew Zhou and his wife spent 1.6 million yuan ($261,000) to buy a two-bedroom apartment last month in eastern Shanghai after seeing no potential for long-term returns in China’s financial markets. 'Home prices keep rising, so I’d rather buy a place now than put the...

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The Marin Independent Journal reports from California. "It's up, up and away once again, with home prices in Marin increasing 24 percent from last year to $942,000 in August 2013, according to the Marin County Assessor's office. While the median price dipped from $990,500 in July, Marin real estate...

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By JACK McCABE WE ARE ON THE CUSP OF THE next great real estate boom-bust cycle, the second since the beginning of the millennia. This one could be worse than the bust of last decade that prefaced and caused the Great Recession. What will we call this cycle? The Greater -- or Greatest -- Recession?...

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It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "How should we define a housing bubble? The classic housing 2004 housing bubble paper by Karl Case and Robert Schiller explains it this way: 'We believe that in its widespread use the term refers to a situation in which excessive public expectations...

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Readers were full of questions for this weekend. "China Property bubble vs US Property bubble vs Japan Property bubble." One asked, "Is a QE3 taper postponement rally in the cards for the near term?" A reply, "Put a different way, the bond market has reacted in anticipation of the punch bowl being...