Why wouldn’t it be?
With interest rate rises on hold and signs of a slowing global economy, there have been a lot of noises that house prices globally are falling. We look at how U.S. house prices are looking compared to a year ago.
Continue reading “Are house prices in the U.S. really falling? March 2019 Edition”
Are more houses being constructed? And what about the average and median prices of houses being sold?
Has Gold, U.S. Equities or U.S. Property performed the best? We compare the performance of each and the results are surprising.
The media has recently been writing about an apparent house price crash for UK house prices but it isn’t that bad. We wrote in May that UK house sales and house price growth are slowing, the on the ground situation hasn’t changed since and the newly available statistics support that.
Continue reading “London house prices have fallen most since 2009 but it is not what it seems”
Several people in the UK didn’t experience the great (property price) crash of 2008. But several other people did. A decade on – do people remember? Here is a sample of prices from London’s financial district – Canary Wharf. And no, we haven’t taken the worst-case example, this is truly representative,
Continue reading “UK house sales and house price growth are slowing but is this time any different?”
We asked the question, Are the British obsessed about house buying and house prices? a couple of months ago.
The British are obsessed about house prices because most of their wealth outside of pensions is invested in property.
Here is a summarized comparison of the different house price indices in the United Kingdom,
Based on data from Eurostat, here are key takeaways about house prices in the European Union between 2008 and 2017,
Continue reading “Here’s how house prices in the European Union have changed between 2008 and 2017”
Oil prices closed at $67.39 on Friday, gaining 8.6% during the week and hitting a 3-year high. Like we covered here, the impact of oil prices is being felt with oil dependent companies like airlines already seeing margins squeezed.
Meanwhile, US 2-year Treasury bonds hit a high of 2.373%, the highest since September 9, 2008 (if the date sounds familiar it was just 5 days before Lehman Brothers entered Chapter 11 administration). Continue reading “Weekly overview: Oil prices hit 3-year high; US 2-year Treasury yields highest since September 2008; Subprime is making a comeback”
It is said that an Englishman’s home is his castle. Is that the reason the British are so obsessed about house buying? Continue reading “Are the British obsessed about house buying and house prices?”