...8 percent at the height of the bubble. Trulia explains, "that's because Austin (and Texas generally) avoided the worst of last decade's bubble and bust." Overall, Trulia expects national home...
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Report Highlights Price, Affordability Trends
...58, eventually rising to a peak of more than 160. "On the other hand, Houston, historically very affordable, did not see the bubble of many other markets and with strong...
Read More »Urban Institute Breaks Down GSE Denial Rates
...55 percent of Asian. In 2001 (a pre-bubble year), at least 37 percent of African Americans were denied GSE loans, as were 25 percent of Hispanics, 15 percent of whites...
Read More »Experts Split on Housing Affordability Concerns
...California's largest markets, Zillow reported in a recent study. The survey also turned up concerns about price growth inflating a new bubble if it continues at such a high pace....
Read More »The Pros and Cons of San Francisco’s Tech Boom
...the Bay Area's economy becoming another dot-com crash are possible, "traditional valuation measures are much different than they were during the run-up during the tech bubble in the late 1990s."...
Read More »As Markets Come to Boil, Analysts Dispel Bubble Fears
...past five years,” O’Grady said. “It’s an impressive run, but far from bubble territory.” The reason he’s not anticipating a bubble is because Pro Teck’s data has shown that bubbles...
Read More »Asking Prices Up 10.0% Year-on-Year; Urban Areas Lead
...with stronger demand should have both higher price growth and more population growth.” And there has been greater demand for urban living since the construction bubble burst in 2009 and...
Read More »Second-Home Mortgage Market Is Alive and Well
...market increased four-fold from 1998 through the bubble years, the second-home mortgage market multiplied by 15 over the same years. The second-home mortgage market did decline significantly during the housing...
Read More »One-Third of For-Sale Homes Considered ‘Unaffordable’
...pre-bubble years. What this translates into for Stan Humphries, Zillow's chief economist, is worry of a new bubble. "As affordability worsens, we're already beginning to see more of the kinds...
Read More »Overvalued Markets on the Rise; National Prices Still Under
...market reached bubble status once again? The answer—at least, according to Trulia chief economist Jed Kolko—is both yes and no. In the company’s latest quarterly Bubble Watch report, Kolko estimates...
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