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If the housing bust happen, Would you buy this time?
FarmersWon saysIf the housing bust happen, Would you buy this time?
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I ignore the market and look only at the price of any particular house I want to buy compared to what it would cost to rent that.
If I can find a house I like which is cheaper than renting the same thing, I would buy it. I can't find any of those in California, and not sure I want to stay in California anyway.
I think in most of the country it is normal to find houses that are cheaper than renting the same thing, but not here.
Monitoring Emergence of Housing Bubbles in Real Time
An asset—in this case, housing—is in the primary expansionary phase of a bubble when price rises are out of step with market fundamentals. Rapid real house-price appreciation, such as that observed now, does not in itself signal a bubble. Shifts in disposable income, the cost of credit and access to it, supply disruptions, and rising labor and raw construction materials costs are among the economic reasons for sustained real house-price gains.
But real house prices can diverge from market fundamentals when there is widespread belief that today’s robust price increases will continue. If many buyers share this belief, purchases arising from a “fear of missing out” can drive up prices and heighten expectations of strong house-price gains.