Commentary The Nobel prize winner Robert Shiller warns about the risk of the U.S. housing bubble bursting. In 2013 Robert Shiller (together with colleagues) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his empirical analysis of asset prices. Although he has been famous for stock market studies, his century-long housing price series is the…

Many cities are experiencing housing bubbles. Some reasons include pent-up buying left over from the pandemic, or people who are nesting more since they are working remotely. In addition, many people are using real estate as a hedge against inflation. And some are just following jobs and lower state taxes. When choosing your next home, it’s…

Prospective homebuyers are canceling sales and backing out of deals at the highest rate since the start of the pandemic, Redfin announced on July 11. About 60,000 home-purchase agreements throughout the country fell through in June 2022, roughly equivalent to 14.9 percent of the homes that were under contract that month, compared with 12.7 percent in…

Is the market going to crash? Everyone jostled by the news the housing market could crash has every reason to be worried. And why is that so? Because when the last time the housing market sored like this—it sparked a great recession that left many in financial ruins. The Real Estate Market Crash is Coming…

Commentary Washington never learns. Never. Politicians are like collective Alzheimer’s disease patients. They have no short-term memories. Does anyone remember 2008? It was only 14 years ago. Then, America suffered through one of the most significant and most painful financial crises in our nation’s history—and the worst losses since the crash of 1929. Millions of…

Commentary According to the Wall Street Journal, “Zillow Group said on Thursday that it lost $881 million on its algorithmic-driven home-flipping business last year in its first earnings report since the real-estate company shut down that operation in the fall.” The emphasis is, naturally, mine because, frankly, it’s mind-boggling. Zillow accounts for nearly a third…

Troubles in China’s property sector are beginning to surface after more developers joined Evergrande’s debacle and are also struggling to pay their debts. “If Evergrande goes down like this, then I believe this is the domino,” said a Taiwan-based financial expert, as the housing bubble is pushing the property giant to the brink of collapse….

News Analysis Following a recent warning from China’s top banking regulator about a possible bubble in the Chinese housing market, mainland Chinese media company ARCHINA published an editorial emphasizing the communist regime’s concerns and the need to enforce tighter regulations. The move comes after U.S. policymakers announced raising interest rates by the end of 2023….

Billionaire Bill Ackman eyeing the world’s largest music company. Investors of Pershing Square Tontine Holdings may soon hold stock in one of the Big three. Are we in a housing bubble? Record high prices and record low inventory. NTD talks to a top developer. And boat sales and rentals are through the roof heading into summer. NTD…

LOS ANGELES—Housing has gotten less affordable in all Southern California counties, compared to a year ago, a real estate group said May 11. Statewide housing affordability reached its lowest level since mid-2018, as higher prices fueled by a shortage of homes for sale pushed the state’s median home price more than 22 percent higher on…