Analysis Topic: Housing Market Price trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, April 03, 2017
Why US Commercial Real Estate Is the Next ‘’Big Short’’ / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: STRATFOR
A small but growing group of hedge funds are positioning themselves to profit from the collapse of the real estate market. Sounds like 2007, right? It’s actually happening right now.
But this time, hedge funds (along with Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley) aren’t targeting subprime mortgages—they’re going after commercial real estate.
It’s no secret retailers and malls have been struggling for years, but it looks like the perfect storm is set to hit them in 2017.
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Friday, March 31, 2017
Our Economies Run On Housing Bubbles / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Raul_I_Meijer
We are witnessing the demise of the world’s two largest economic power blocks, the US and EU. Given deteriorating economic conditions on both sides of the Atlantic, which have been playing out for many years but were so far largely kept hidden from view by unprecedented issuance of debt, the demise should come as no surprise.
The debt levels are not just unprecedented, they would until recently have been unimaginable. When the conditions for today’s debt orgasm were first created in the second half of the 20th century, people had yet to wrap their minds around the opportunities and possibilities that were coming on offer. Once they did, they ran with it like so many lemmings.
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Thursday, March 23, 2017
Is Now a Good Time to Invest in the US Housing Market? / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Nicholas_Kitonyi
The US housing market has maintained its subdued growth following Trump’s election to The White House. Towards the end of last year, especially in the run-in to the US presidential elections, there was what appeared to be a strong belief that Trump would be bad for the stock market if elected as president, and by extension the overall economy of the US.However, the US stock market has experienced one of the best runs in history repeatedly breaking the all-time highs from one week to the next. The housing market, on the other hand, has experienced a rather slower growth since Trump’s election, but the point is that it’s been growing, nonetheless.
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Thursday, March 23, 2017
Trends to Look Out For as a Modern-day Landlord / Housing-Market / Buy to Let
By: Submissions
They say that property is always a sound investment, yet changes in the economy have led to some suggestions that life as a landlord is soon to get so much more difficult.
There is increased legislation, the markets are changing and in short, there's just a few more obstacles to contend with.
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
US Real Estate & Interest Rate Change – You’ve Been Warned! / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Is this the moment which could spark a stock market sell-off?
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, in a speech given in Chicago, last Friday, March 3rd, 2017, suggested that the FED will likely resume raising interest rates later this month.
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Thursday, March 02, 2017
US Real Estate May Never Be the Same Again / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Harry_Dent
I expected Japan’s 67% drop in residential real estate to rebound substantially, even with its smaller, but still substantial millennial generation. But that hasn’t happened. So, I went digging to find out what was going on.I’ll admit that this had me stumped for a while… until I began to understand that real estate was different than other consumer sectors of spending. It’s obviously not a consumable like food or clothing. But it’s not like a durable product either, like cars and washing machines. Real estate, with the exception of natural disasters or human insanity (arson, wars, etc.), tends to last forever.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
This Chart Signals China’s Housing Bubble May Burst Soon / Housing-Market / China Housing Market
By: John_Mauldin
The probability that a real estate bubble may burst in China is rising. The financial sector heavily depends on real estate, which in turn exposes the entire Chinese economy to systemic risk. This link means that a downturn in real estate could soon spread to other areas of the Chinese economy if banks face liquidity shortfalls.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017
UK First-time Home Buyer Market is Robust and Ready for Spring / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: MoneyFacts
In just a couple of weeks’ time, Spring will arrive, which is typically the time of year when house hunters start searching for their ideal home as many more houses become listed for sale. Once first-time buyers have built up a big enough deposit to get themselves onto the property ladder, the next port of call is to find the right property and to pick the best mortgage.
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Thursday, February 09, 2017
Sheffield Housing Crisis, First New Council Houses Built for Rent in 30 Years! / Housing-Market / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Britain continues to experience a worsening housing crisis as annual demand for 400,000 new builds far out strips supply of barely 140,000, which keeps ratcheting up the crisis each year. Sheffield as is the case for most UK cities has seen its safety net of council properties for rent evaporate from a housing stock of over 80,000 30 years ago, most of which have been sold off at deep discounts under the right to buy scheme to now stand at under 40,000 council properties for rent.
Wednesday, February 01, 2017
Interesting US Real Estate Market Trends That Will Appear In 2017 / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
2016 saw a really surprising twist in the US as Donald Trump won the presidential race. This in itself is a guarantee that the market will see different changes, given that Trump is a real estate magnate. Although associated created controversy affects various parts of US economy, the real estate market is expected to continue its upwards trend started in 2016.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, January 30, 2017
UK Mortgage Cashback for first-time Home Buyers Decreasing / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
Cash rebates are seen as a great sweetener for cash-strapped first-time buyers, with the providers that offer this type of incentive really standing out from the crowd. However, research by Moneyfacts.co.uk shows that the average cashback for those with a modest deposit (90 and 95% loan-to-value) has fallen by £59 in just two years.
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Sunday, January 15, 2017
UK House Prices Forecast 2017 - Crash or Bull Market? - Video / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
UK house prices ended 2016 up 7.2% despite London house prices weakness that according to the Nationwide increased by an average of just 3.7%, near half the UK rate. This illustrates why so many housing market analyst / journalists got UK house prices so badly wrong for 2016 as they mistakenly latched onto London weakness as a sign for a imminent UK house prices bear market or worse a BrExit CRASH. After all the consensus view was that if London was weak then the rest of the UK would be suffer far worse.
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
UK 10-year Fixed Interest Rate Mortgages Conundrum / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
Given the negotiations on the UK’s future relationship with the EU, we are expected to have some uncertain times ahead. Borrowers are likely to be worried about how this will affect mortgage rates, with many looking for long-term mortgage repayment security to shield them from an unpredictable future. A 10-year fixed rate mortgage could be just the solution, particularly with research from Moneyfacts.co.uk showing that the 10-year fixed rate market is flourishing.
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Monday, January 09, 2017
Four Major Trends to Expect from the U.S. Housing Market in 2017 / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Nicholas_Kitonyi
2017 is already off to an interesting start in the global real estate market and the forces of demand and supply are building up momentum that will determine the pace of the markets this year. In the UK, home prices ended up 7.2% in 2016 in contrast to the prevailing fears that the UK housing market will suffer a post-Brexit crash after London recorded weakness in house prices. Now, many housing market analysts think that the UK housing market has survived the worst ; hence, they believe that 2017 could be a bullish year in the real estate markets.
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Monday, January 09, 2017
UK Mortgage Trends Treasury Report – Largest fall in BTL products since 2009 / Housing-Market / Buy to Let
By: MoneyFacts
Moneyfacts UK Mortgage Trends Treasury Report data, not yet published, highlights a significant drop in the number of buy-to-let (BTL) mortgage products, with 74 deals having been withdrawn from the market in just one month.
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Monday, January 02, 2017
No UK House Prices Brexit Crash 2016 Despite London Weakness, Forecast 2017 / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
UK house prices ended 2016 up 7.2% (provisional) despite London house prices weakness that according to the Nationwide increased by an average of just 3.7%, near half the UK rate. This illustrates why so many housing market analyst / journalists got UK house prices so badlty wrong for 2016 as they mistakenly latched onto London weakness as sign for a imminent UK housing market bear market or worse a Brexit CRASH After all the consensus view was that if London was weak then the rest of the UK would be suffering far worse. This view was liberally regurgitated across the mainstream press all year.
Saturday, December 17, 2016
US Housing Starts Dive 18.7 Percent as Mortgage Interest Rates Soar / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Mike_Shedlock
The often volatile housing starts numbers took another dive this report, down 18.7% in November according to the Census Bureau New Residential Construction report for November 2016.
Monday, December 12, 2016
UK Mortgage Market Competition Ramped up in 2016 / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
Moneyfacts UK Mortgage Trends Treasury Report data, not yet published, highlights that there has been significant improvement amongst the lenders who have 80%* share of the mortgage lending.
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Monday, December 05, 2016
UK Housing Mortgages - Goodbye to the Government Help to Buy Guarantee / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
On 31 December, phase two of the Help to Buy initiative will be withdrawn from the market. Moneyfacts.co.uk looks back at the significance of the scheme and what effect it has had on high loan-to-value (LTV) mortgages.
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Thursday, December 01, 2016
Will US Housing Real Estate Market Tank in 2017? / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Clif_Droke
In many ways, 2016 has been a banner year for U.S. real estate. Housing prices continued to strengthen in several major metropolitan markets and even reached frothy proportions in at least three major markets. Below the surface of an otherwise healthy market, however, lies a set of factors that could cause problems for the housing market in 2017.