...funds. Her piece explores whether or not real estate index funds have reached a point where market saturation has led to inflated shares that could expose the next financial bubble....

...acquire a home loan. The credit available to homebuyers remains far tighter than it was prior to the housing bubble burst—at least half of what it was in pre-bubble years....

...Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania echoed this sentiment saying that not enough liquidity in the system was likely to cause the next housing bubble. “The liquidity comes in part...

...are in the West and Southwest, with the gains above mid-2000s bubble, but according to Zillow, plenty of other markets are still struggling to recover lost value. "A decade after...

...folks like Markus Brunnermeier at Princeton to bring about crises.” “When you have too much money chasing too few attractive options, you end up in the bubble. And the bubble...

...the early 2000s. During the housing bubble, it jumped to around 40 percent. After receding slightly during the recession, the GSEs’ share of first-timers has maintained an upward trajectory since...

...millennial “home shopping spree” lead to a “bump in the overall homeownership rate in Q2.” He considered that the current millennial homeownership remains “well below pre-crisis and pre-bubble norms, but...

...quarters, the government channels have expanded their credit risk from 9.8 percent to 11.4 percent. However, the Urban Institute pointed out this remains well below the “pre-bubble level of 19-23...

...toward a “generational housing bubble?” Fannie Mae’s Economic and Strategic Research Group teamed up with the University of Southern California to answer this question in a new Housing Insights report,...

...more on customers and customer service, and less on time-consuming and repetitive tasks. The Rise of the Digital Docket Before the housing bubble burst, the average mortgage application ran about...