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2023 Housing Bubble or 2024 Real Estate Boom?

Zillow “creates” digital home valuations and The Fed “creates” digital currency so it’s not like we are dealing with credible institutions BUT: The Dallas Fed is worried that housing is overvalued. Our evidence points to abnormal U.S. housing market behavior for the first time since the boom of the early 2000s. Reasons for concern are […]

What Professor Alexander Kurov Gets Wrong About Gamestop and Bubbles

Let’s start here;  overregulation creates bubbles, not speculators.  West Virginia University Professor of Finance, Alexander Kurov, offers an op-ed which comes to the conclusion that speculation from Reddit bros could wreak havoc on capital markets: So markets fail sometimes, and we need sensible regulation and enforcement to make such failures less likely. Taken in isolation, […]

When the punters come out to play, are they tugging a real estate bubble behind them?

Q: Why is it so hard to buy at the top?A: That’s how you know it’s the top.Who’s listing actual fee-simple dirt? Could life get any better? Representing hypothetical cubes of air-space amidst spookily-vacant concrete canyons? Not so much. I just heard that J.P. Morgan is calling its people back to the office, so maybe […]

Until there is a brokerage counter at Wal-Mart, there is no real estate bubble

Ever wonder about the relationship between gold and real estate? Jim Klein got me to thinking about a “store of wealth”, when I postulated that there is no gold bubble: I think people can get snookered into thinking it’s a great “investment.” It’s protection, it’s barter; it’s a store of wealth. To me, that’s not […]

Twisted minds: Was BusinessWeek bamboozled by bubble-blogstress?

Was a big-time Sixth Avenue media giant flim-flammed by a Gilbert, AZ, housewife, nom de guerre “Twist,” who has set herself up as an authority on the residential real estate market and its feverishly-sought collapse? From BusinessWeek Online’s Hot Property: In Phoenix, the numbers seem to go kerflooey every December. In December 2005, the number […]

Furious fusillades of blistering BubbleHead flatulence: Foghorn Leghorn declares “WAR!”

Well. That was even more lame than I expected. Foghorn Leghorn–er, Keith at HousingPanic has declared war by commanding his troops to… read. And to read BloodhoundBlog of all things! Yeah, that’ll work… The specific marching orders are pretty stupid, but that’s hardly a surprise. The troops are supposed to prove that the Phoenix housing […]

Arizona economy: “Get over housing bubble, economists say, growth remains strong”

I won’t have September’s numbers until tomorrow, but the news is not good for bubbleheads — which is to say that the news is not bad for everyone else. Meanwhile, there’s this from The Business Journal of Phoenix: Some of Arizona’s leading economists believe the housing slowdown is a short-lived bump in the road that […]

The Lord of the Bubbleflies: Lean-looked prophet whispers fearful change, cultivating the worst impulses in otherwise decent people . . .

Ahem: I am rooting for an epic housing collapse, a disastrous recession, the collapse of the stock market, a complete replacement of our current partisian leadership, a questioning of our country’s current economic model, and a severe and historic financial meltdown. I told you so… Technorati Tags: blogging, real estate

When Realtors become as stupidly hyperbolic as the bubbleboys, that’s news…

Apparently, about 200 Phoenix-area Realtors got together Thursday night for some group therapy: About 200 agents gathered at the Southeast Valley Association of Realtors in Mesa to hear tips from top achievers on how to sell homes and handle clients in this transitional market. We don’t belong to SEVRAR, so we weren’t invited, but that’s […]