News: Real Estate Bubble

Dubai financial crisis has given a jolt to the world economy on recovery path with the burst of real estate industry bubble. European as well as Middle East banks have the highest financial exposure to the real estate projects in Dubai.

"Location, location, location" used to be the three most important words in real estate. But after their spree helped create the housing bubble, lenders tightened their rules. And many buyers are finding it hard to line up financing.

The trigger effect of George W Bush’s Great Recession was the burst of the US housing market bubble. From 2002 to 2007 the banks played an active role in inflating the prices and in some area of the country such as California, Florida and Nevada the real estate “value” saw a yearly increase of about 20 percent. Properties were appraised high, ....

Some analysts see evidence that the Chinese property bubble is in the midst of bursting.

Real Estate The Not So American Dream While Americans ride the wave of financial turmoil, nations such as Canada seem to have only suffered a few bruises when it comes to the real estate bubble. Canadians have not faced the same spikes in foreclosures that we have seen in the United States.

Four years after the housing bubble popped, the American real estate market has yet to launch a sustainable recovery. Although U.S. home prices have improved modestly since the spring of 2009--and certain regional markets have performed even better--sales and values will face renewed downward pressure later this year in the wake of the expiration o

Michael David White is a mortgage and real estate professional, as well as a Seeking Alpha contributor. In a recent article White posted a number of excellent graphs on the state of the housing market, including the following:

Fear of financial collapse has enhanced gold's glitter, with prices soaring more than 300 percent the past decade, including 30 percent just in the last 12 months. And just as strong U.S. real estate prices a few years ago created a burgeoning ecosystem of entrepreneurs exploiting that bubble, gold's surge has led to a new crop of prospectors seeki

In May in major cities fall by 50% of sales.In the first six months of this year in the city of Shanghai, the epicenter of China building fever, there was a decrease of 34 percent in the number of contracts, marking the lowest in five years.

Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you what you already know... the bubble has burst! Yes, after a decade or more of constantly increasing values the free ride has ended. We are told by economists that really know (not politicians or real estate agents) that real estate will continue to decline and then will remain flat for the next decade.