Money and Finance
- Yale Professor Robert Shiller: Is This Housing Boom Going To Last? I Think Not
Found via ValueWalk. It sounds like Shiller overall still thinks housing is attractive, though prices are vulnerable and can't continue rising at this pace. He basically thinks house prices are about normal right now. He mentioned a bump up in prices...
- States Steal Federal Foreclosure Funds At Their Own Peril
Found via the Corner of Berkshire & Fairfax. The U.S. housing market is showing tentative signs of life as demand for new homes and housing prices begin to rise in some areas. Yet pitfalls remain, including about 12 million borrowers who still...
- The End Of Australia’s $2 Trillion Housing Party - By Philip Soos
Found via the Corner of Berkshire & Fairfax. Executive Summary A great deal of debate has occurred in Australia on the notion that the residential property market may be experiencing a bubble, set to burst in a similar fashion to that in the United...
- Why Some Housing Bubbles Remain - By Edward Chancellor
Housing bubbles appear pretty similar on the way up. Yet the aftermaths of recent real estate booms in the US, UK, Spain and Australia have been extremely varied. US home prices took a real hammering. The formerly hot housing markets of the UK and Spain,...
- September 2003 Statement From Ron Paul On The Gses And The Housing Market
I saw this statement mentioned on TV and thought it was worth posting. The connection between the GSEs and the government helps isolate the GSE management from market discipline. This isolation from market discipline is the root cause of the recent reports...
Money and Finance
GR-NEAM Reflections: 01/31/2012 - American Housing: Falling Prices, But Rising Value
Thanks to Matt for passing this along.
Rental economics in the American housing market are attractive, particularly relative to capital market returns available in general. Clearing the housing market would address the imbalance between rental and purchase values, but requires capital entry. Government policymakers’ attention may encourage capital movement, and the bottoming of house prices.
- Yale Professor Robert Shiller: Is This Housing Boom Going To Last? I Think Not
Found via ValueWalk. It sounds like Shiller overall still thinks housing is attractive, though prices are vulnerable and can't continue rising at this pace. He basically thinks house prices are about normal right now. He mentioned a bump up in prices...
- States Steal Federal Foreclosure Funds At Their Own Peril
Found via the Corner of Berkshire & Fairfax. The U.S. housing market is showing tentative signs of life as demand for new homes and housing prices begin to rise in some areas. Yet pitfalls remain, including about 12 million borrowers who still...
- The End Of Australia’s $2 Trillion Housing Party - By Philip Soos
Found via the Corner of Berkshire & Fairfax. Executive Summary A great deal of debate has occurred in Australia on the notion that the residential property market may be experiencing a bubble, set to burst in a similar fashion to that in the United...
- Why Some Housing Bubbles Remain - By Edward Chancellor
Housing bubbles appear pretty similar on the way up. Yet the aftermaths of recent real estate booms in the US, UK, Spain and Australia have been extremely varied. US home prices took a real hammering. The formerly hot housing markets of the UK and Spain,...
- September 2003 Statement From Ron Paul On The Gses And The Housing Market
I saw this statement mentioned on TV and thought it was worth posting. The connection between the GSEs and the government helps isolate the GSE management from market discipline. This isolation from market discipline is the root cause of the recent reports...