Annual prices rose 3.7% in November, and rose 1.2% on a monthly basis, Nationwide said. Both the annual and monthly increases were greater than economists had forecasts in a Reuters poll. "Housing market activity has remained relatively resilient in recent months, with the number of mortgage...
The article presents the British Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors' (RICS) report which says that the percentage of surveyors in England and Wales who reported price rises from January to March 2013 was the highest on record since June 2010. It says that in the March 2013 RICS Housing ...
Eight states voted for George Bush that haven’t voted for another Republican presidential candidate since then. Six of those states were in the Northeast, and one was California. All of those states saw big house price increases in the 1980s. By 1990, however, house prices nationally had st...
In its latest quarterly bulletin the think tank said the acceleration in house prices this year had led to concerns about the sustainability of such increases and whether it would lead to “a painful correction” similar to the one that followed the 2008 financial crisis. In its analysis the ...
High foreclosure FHA mortgages become even higher foreclosure with slower house price appreciation. The negative effect increases exponentially as the percentage of FHA mortgages in a neighborhood increases. Greater downside risk to house prices. Typically, the Fed lowers interest rates befo...
and had a population of just under one million in 2018. The population of this province was relatively steady between 2000 and 2015, but hastaken off since then. This sudden growth may be a factor in the increasing house prices, as demand also increases due to the greater number of residen...
The increase in lending boosted housing demand and house prices, which in turn had feedback effects on household debt through home equity-based borrowing (Mian and Sufi, 2011) or expectations of further house price increases (Kaplan et al., 2020). The subsequent house price collapse propagated ...
While the price of real estate in Portugal continues to rise, it seems the number of people using their property as Alojamento Local (AL), or temporary local lodging, is dropping, with Lisbon having been hit by the biggest reduction in registrations....
When profit margins of a whole industry rise because of repeated price increases, the indication is not a good one for the long-range investor. —Philip Arthur Fisher 37 A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in...
“The average UK house price fell slightly for a second month, as the market continues to tread water with marginal increases or decreases in each monthly period,” said Russell Galley, managing director at Halifax. “That said, it’s worth remembering that while economic uncertainty continues to...