MetaFilter posts tagged with realestate and bubble

The Next Bubble

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:28:53 -0800

The Next Bubble: Priming the markets for tomorrow's big crash. A layman's primer on the genesis and future of today's economic troubles, at Harper's Magazine.

A world of Casey Serins

Asparagirl — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:13:46 -0800

What's the link between:
1) the quickly-growing number of American homeowners becoming unable to pay their mortgages after their ARM's reset (a trend nicknamed "ARMageddon" -- applicable in the UK too), which is translating into soaring foreclosure rates, and in turn forcing at least 60 US semi-shady mortgage brokers to go belly-up in the past year (i.e. the "subprime meltdown"), and...
2) the recent implosion and impending financial bailout -- which may become the biggest since the Long Term Capital Management fiasco of 1998 -- of two Bear Stearns hedge funds which dealt in mortgage securities? [more inside]

Come on ride the train...

afx114 — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:48:15 -0800

BubbleFilter: Real Estate Roller Coaster. [via] US Home prices adjusted for inflation plotted as a first-person ride on a roller coaster. Keep your eye on the bottom right-hand corner for the corresponding year. Don't worry about the dramatic ending. I mean really, how bad could bad get?

Buy a house or you will die.

brain_drain — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:43:57 -0800

If you continue to wait, you may never be able to afford to get into the housing market. The National Association of Home Builders wants you to buy a home now. Should you wait? No, no, no, no! Via Housing Panic.

The Sky is Falling

ereshkigal45 — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:46:25 -0800

I've become obsessed with the idea of the Real Estate Bubble. I don't even live in NYC or SF, but I must read Brownstoner, Curbed, and Curbed SF every day. For more local, but less spectacular, chills I read Urban Trekker. And for a more global view of the gloom: The Matrix, The Housing Bubble, and Bubble Meter. Finally, for one last depressing shot, America's Overvalued Real Estate tracks down the most depressingly overpriced "pieces of shit" across the country. Related discussions here, here, here, and (premature or prescient?) here.

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

Lanark — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:08:18 -0800

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own

Mr. skullhead — Thu, 28 Dec 2000 19:34:25 -0800

Dotcom Yuppies Gone Home. As dotcoms crash and burn, real estate prices start to drop.

Who can say that's a bad thing?