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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Vosilla who wrote (87485)	10/10/2007 8:13:02 AM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110194

Never say never. England did the cut, their RE bubble bounced back, even with a strong pound. The ratio of median home price to median income is much worse for the Brits than it is here. Housing is a real asset that simply reflects real inflation, 10% plus. It thus is nothing but a leveraged inflation bet. Well, it obviously got ahead of inflation in recent years, to put it mildly, but as material costs triple, shouldn't the price of new homes go up some? As housing leveled off in 2005, it is now down 20%-30%, in REAL terms. Low rates is all that matters. So, if rates stay low or go lower, housing will bounce back.