The Housing Bubble Blog

A report from the Daily Telegraph in Australia. "Finding a property can be like striking gold in the Sydney market, but one developer is letting buyers have both. Johnson Property Group, the developers behind Trinity Point at Lake Macquarie, is giving away 500g gold bullion bars valued at $28,888...

A report from Multi-Housing News. "Coming off a strong year in 2015, student housing investment continues to gain momentum. By August, volume reached $5.7 billion, a 54 percent year-over-year increase that edged out the $5.6 billion tally for all of 2015, according to Real Capital Analytics Inc....

A report from KSBY in California. "If you live in Santa Maria, you may have noticed more homes for sale in your neighborhood. There may have been a lot of price reductions, too. One local realtor says the market is getting ready to make a big switch. 'We start seeing it shifting from a sellers'...

It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "The economy officially bottomed in June of 2009, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. Since then, our country has been slowly working its way back to less dire, more promising, conditions. The road to recovery has been somewhat...

A report from the Sierra Sun in California. "While the recent regional housing study shows that more than half of Truckee-Tahoe’s workforce commutes to the region from other locations, real estate sales in the area are on the rise. 'The majority of the buyers in our area are second homeowners,...

A report from Mingtiandi on China. "It may have seemed like an attack by the undead, but a crazed mob that tore the doors off a Hangzhou real estate office last weekend came in search of apartments, not human flesh. When homes went on sale at the unnamed property firm in the capital of Zhejiang...

A report from the Associated Press. "Pale green and 8 feet tall, tightly packed corn stalks reach to the horizon throughout the Midwest in what is likely to be the biggest harvest the U.S. has ever seen. Aside from a sense of pride in breaking the previous record by nearly a billion bushels,...

A report from Bloomberg on Connecticut. "In Greenwich, the leafy Connecticut town famous for its cluster of hedge funds and the titans of Wall Street who occupy many a gated mansion, the rich are being maddeningly frugal. As Barry Sternlicht complained when he assailed his former hometown as...

The Age reports from Australia. "All across Melbourne, new apartments riddled with faults have been sold to investors and residents. Some of the problems are so costly to fix that it would be cheaper to build the apartments again. Often these cases play out behind closed doors or, quietly, in the...

A report from the San Mateo Daily Journal in California. "Renters struggling to afford the considerable cost of living locally may see some relief on the horizon according to county real estate professionals who project the market will soften. Average rents have nearly doubled in and around San...

A report from the Financial Post in Canada. "Your home may have climbed in value as much as 35 per cent in the past year, so why wouldn’t you want to own another one? Increasing numbers of homeowners keen to take advantage of a booming market for low-rise detached homes are 'doubling up' on their...

A report from the Culpeper Star Exponent in Virginia. "The latest news in the long-stalled Clevenger’s Corner mega-development and other housing projects topped the Friday morning agenda of the Culpeper County Board of Supervisors retreat meeting. Culpeper County Planning & Community Development...

A report from the Daily Nebraskan. "In the past four years downtown Lincoln has quintupled its number of beds through the addition of several student-marketed apartment complexes, adding the perfect living option for some, but a nightmare for others. Often targeted toward students, the new downtown...

An interview from the Epoch Times. "To make outsized returns or avoid some nasty losses in investing, you have to go against the grain. There are few people who live that principle more than Reggie Middleton, the CEO of fintech (financial technology) company Veritaseum. On his independent research...

It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Real estate is the heart of Miami's economy. In the past four years, more than 3,000 condo units have been built, and a whopping 11,000 are slated to finish construction by 2018. It might seem an insane proposition to sell 14,000 new luxury condos...

A report from CBC News. "When it comes to low interest rates, winter is coming. That was Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen's clear message Wednesday. Despite strong objections from some of her advisers, Yellen announced no change this week. So strongly that Yellen and her advisers on the committee...

A report from The Investor on Colorado. "The Denver metro area remains a popular destination for Millennials, employers, investors, and apartment developers in 2016. To capitalize on the strength of the apartment market, 23,650 units are under construction and an additional 22,000 units are in...

KUTV reports from Utah. "Utah's housing market is booming with homes selling in a matter of days with multiple offers at or above asking price. Prices have been rising so fast, some worry the state and the nation could be in for another housing bubble. Here in Utah, home prices have recovered to...

A report from Bloomberg on China. "China’s attempts to slow runaway home-price growth in major cities are showing little sign of success, stoking the threat of a housing bubble that could destabilize the economy. Home prices rose in 64 of 70 cities tracked by the government, up from 51 the previous...

A report from the New York Real Estate Journal. "Overall capitalization rates (cap rates) are always the topic of discussion in real estate appraisal circles. We are still in the midst of some of the most historically low cap rates in modern history. The cap rates are directly related to the lowest...