...peak reached during the bubble. "A decade after the financial crisis, the scars of the housing bust are still with us," said Zillow Senior Economist Aaron Terrazas. "The gap between...
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Home Prices: What Goes Up Isn’t Coming Down Soon
...Dr. Ralph G. DeFranco, Global Chief Economist, Mortgage Services, Arch Capital Services Inc. “Our research shows few signs of a housing bubble because the typical warning signs aren’t present. Overall,...
Read More »A Tale of Two Decades
...and New York—they are not up into the bubble territory of 2003-2005, mortgage industry experts agree. In 2008, home values were dropping sharply, with some sinking to half of what...
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...is going to be strong enough that it's a positive year for landlords. Do you see the potential for local housing bubbles in certain markets in 2018? There are certain...
Read More »Top 5 Housing Predictions for 2018
...what seems to be forever. Interest rates remained low but are now rising, and refinancing plummeted as expected. We had a Seattle housing bubble. On one side of the country,...
Read More »The Top 16 High-Risk Housing Markets
...to speculate on short-term price gains and an increase in vacancy rates. According to the analysis, housing bubbles are often accompanied by widespread mortgage fraud. With all of these factors...
Read More »In Housing, a Good Deal Is Hard to Find
...transactions falling, property marketing times increasing, or a combination of all three.” Johnson says fears of an impending housing bubble in a larger sense are most likely overestimated, “as the...
Read More »Rising Rent Costs Blocking Homeownership Dreams for Many
...it’s become—renters are spending nearly $2,000 a year more in 2017 than they would have been prior to the housing bubble. According to Zillow’s analysis, the median U.S. rental costs...
Read More »Construction and Demand to Soar Across North America
...may be in danger on a housing bubble. In early 2017, Germany’s bank estimated that the nation’s housing market may be overvalued by as much as 30 percent. In Sweden,...
Read More »Almost 10-Years Later: Home Prices Return to Boom Levels
Home prices have returned to boom levels similar to 10-years ago when the housing bubble burst and catapulted the Great Recession. Despite similarities between then vs. now, the current market...
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