All Posts Tagged With: "Real Estate Bubble"

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Asian Real Estate Bubble Begins to Burst

Real estate prices are falling in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Singapore, The Wall Street Journal reports. Most analysts expect the decline to remain moderate, with prices buoyed by Asia's strong economic growth. They may well be right, but recall that most
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16Dec2011 | NewsMax.com | Continued
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Homeowners in Denial About Value of Properties

By ANN CARRNS Homeowners, especially those who bought their houses after the real-estate bubble burst, are still having trouble accepting just how much the values of their properties may have fallen, says a new report from the real-estate site Zillow.
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20Jul2011 | New York | Continued
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Why a Chinese Real Estate Bubble Supports a Stronger Dollar

It turns out that the developer of this crazy real estate program isn’ta real estate developer. It’s the largest metals trading company in China. The biggest Chinese metals trading company is building a Disney-like replica of an obscure, but beautiful
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15Jul2011 | Business Insider | Continued
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UCLA: Is new real estate bubble brewing?

By JON LANSNER / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER In a tough assessment of a slowly recovering local commercial real estate market, a new survey of industry psyche from the Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast reports that recent increase in California
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14Jul2011 | OCRegister | Continued
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China’s Real Estate Bubble

Chinese real estate, on the other hand, maintained its value through the Great Recession as property values tripled between 2004 and 2009. Fast forward another two years, and major cracks are beginning to surface within the Chinese real estate market
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8Jul2011 | San Francisco Chronicle | Continued
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Blame Kevin Costner for China’s real estate bubble

Chinese real estate “investors” don’t actually care about rental yield at all. Indeed, most of them deliberately let their properties sit vacant. They buy apartments as an inflation hedge and are prepared to hold them as long as it takes to sell at a
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6Jul2011 | Business Insider | Continued
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Real Estate Saves Capitalism Then Bursts – China Next?

A real estate bubble bursts, a stock market crashes, and the economy spirals into recession. Two thousand and eight? Uh-uh. Nineteen twenty-nine, although I suppose you could say Depression rather than recession. But the role of real estate in
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5Jul2011 | Real News Network | Continued
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Real estate investors behind two-thirds of Jacksonville’s foreclosures

It sold for $715000 at the height of the real estate bubble in 2006. Since then, the home was partially burned in a mysterious fire, a next-door neighbor said. Then it was abandoned and subsequently condemned, according to city records.
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3Jul2011 | Florida Times-Union | Continued
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Gauging Florida’s real estate market from what’s in the mail

A postcard from real estate sellers. They sent it to boast that they had actually sold a house. Better still, a house in my neighborhood. Astounding! Back during the late, lamented Florida Real Estate Bubble, I got cards like this all the time and
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26Jun2011 | Daytona Beach News-Journal | Continued
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Hong Kong Waits for the Real Estate Bubble to Burst

Andrew Lawrence, head of Asian real estate research for Barclays Capital, is even more precise. “We are reaching, over the next course of the next couple of months, a top in the market,” Mr. Lawrence said. “Affordability is going to decline as mortgage
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23Jun2011 | New York Times | Continued