Quote from: ppc.pt on June 16, 2017, 11:33:15 AM

Quote from: magneto on June 14, 2017, 07:02:10 AM

As we all know it's getting more and more expensive to buy a house, and the rate of growth currently associated with investing in a house is just phenomenal, and obviously too good to not be a bubble. We all know that. However, WHEN will this bubble pop?

More and more houses are being built but the demand for it just continues to go up. And many houses are bought and just left to sit there, not even rented out, fueling the problem further because investors just want a safe and profitable investment.

What do you think the governments can do to avoid this? Put a limit on houses per person? Your opinions?

Have you done a "big short" kind of research ? Have you visited abandoned neighbourhoods ? Have you heard people getting unusual credits ? Have you heard people giving unusual credits ? If so, how many ?

I believe you, but you can't just say it's a bubble because the sector is growing fast. Where I live it's the same, but it's mainly because of the chinese coming here to live, and other countries like Brazil and centre of Europe where is becoming more and more insecure.

We're still a little ways away from being at a point where boots-on-the-ground research like that depicted in "The Big Short" is possible, since the banks started selling the derivatives again in 2015(?) and there needs to be some time for all the bonds to catch up to where they were before 2008. We'll probably see it get to the same place pretty soon.

It should also be considered that there are more factors than just housing now; there is a huge, huge amount of student debt present which is held as a government asset, and we're seeing a lot of people not being able to pay said debts and you can see those people losing their shit in the streets, even online they're talking constantly about how they're unable to pay denbts. The government might experience the collapse of the student loan market, and they can only try to bail out themselves.