How Will 6% Mortgage Rates Deal with Housing Bubble 2? by Wolf Richter • Oct 10, 2018 • 95 Comments It has finally happened – a line in the sand has been breached.
Red Ink: Housing Inflects Further in Bay Area’s Sonoma County by Wolf Richter • Oct 8, 2018 • 46 Comments “101 new listings, 101 price reductions.”
“Trump Bump” in San Francisco’s Housing Bubble by Wolf Richter • Oct 5, 2018 • 89 Comments It’s not fun anymore.
“High End” Apartment Construction Totally Dominates, Creates Mismatch of Supply & Demand by Wolf Richter • Oct 3, 2018 • 73 Comments Because that’s where the money is, on paper. But it’s not where the market is.
The Rental Markets in America, from Hot to Cold by Wolf Richter • Sep 28, 2018 • 48 Comments By city, down to the neighborhood.
What Will Surging Mortgage Rates Do to Housing Bubble 2? by Wolf Richter • Sep 26, 2018 • 66 Comments 5% is here, 6% beckons as the next target.
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America by Wolf Richter • Sep 25, 2018 • 115 Comments Seattle’s historic spike falters. New York condo prices back where they were last September. House-price bubbles in other metros get even more splendid.
Seattle’s Rental Bubble Meets its Inflection Point by Wolf Richter • Sep 21, 2018 • 41 Comments Construction boom, flood of new high-end apartments, not enough demand, rising vacancy rates, and the biggest concessions since the Great Recession.
HELOCs in the US & Canada: As “Scarred” Americans Learned Bitter Lesson, Canadians Went Nuts by Wolf Richter • Sep 20, 2018 • 107 Comments Home-equity-loan balances in Canada per capita are now 3.3 times what they were in the US during HELOC peak before it all collapsed.
Mortgage Rates Head to 6%, 10-Year Yield to 4%, Yield Curve Fails to “Invert,” and Fed Keeps Hiking by Wolf Richter • Sep 19, 2018 • 81 Comments Nightmare scenario for the markets? They just shrugged. But homebuyers haven’t done the math yet.
