Housing

In a long-term strategy which employs both investments, there is a case for putting an over-weight on housing, and an under-weight on gold, given current relative price levels unless one is specifically investing for financial crisis.

The PHLX Housing Index (HGX), subject of our Chart Of The Day, closed today at a 9-year high...yet, as the chart shows, while technically a new high...it’s a bit of a reach yet to declare this a “breakout”. That said, the chart has a few things going for it, if you are a bull on housing stocks. [Let me explain.]

The infographic below captures three megatrends that are the driving forces behind global real estate investment.

Apparently the biggest banks in the U.S. didn’t learn their lesson the first time around because a few days ago, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and many of the usual suspects made a stunning announcement that they would start making crappy subprime loans once again! Words: 896

Last month the most people in eight years decided that if they were going to buy a new home, now would be the time to do it - but how much longer can this trend continue?

It is clear global real estate prices are heating up again and, due to interest rates being lower now than in the previous cycle, real estate prices in the U.S. and globally may actually surprise us with several more years of growth before they peak as global liquidity searches for the few relatively safe assets (in the least dirty shirt fashion) as a way to protect against reflation and devaluation in non-U.S. countries.

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Guess where the hottest and weakest housing markets in the world are? Where are home prices growing faster than disposable personal income? It's all here.

The Bank of Canada took a good look at the Canadian economy, saw it was sinking into the mire, glanced at the collapsed prices of commodities, particularly oil, saw how they were wreaking havoc in Canada, and then looked at the global economy, particularly at China and the US, and freaked out with the realization (acknowledgement) that things are heading south FAST.

Canada's real estate market has started to look eerily similar to the conditions that were present before the United States' real estate crash...This article reviews the data to compare the Canadian real estate values to the U.S. real estate market, to suggest why the Canadian real estate market is due for a significant correction.