‘More pain likely for global housing markets,’ warn economists
'The rapidity of recent price declines in economies like Sweden, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia suggests prices may retrace a large part of their previous boom,' says Adam Slater of Oxford Economics. 'We may be some way from the peak pain levels housing markets will suffer in this cycle,' he adds.
Market-watchers agree house prices will fall – but by how much?
A raft of influential property market-watchers have torn-up their house price forecasts, now anticipating a particularly rough year ahead for the housing sector as the wider economy struggles.
Global housing downturn could see world GDP growth flatline, warn economists
The likelihood of a severe real estate slump is lower now than at the time of the Global Financial Crisis, but a significant drop in residential investment is 'plausible' next year, says Oxford Economics.
Global housing markets are ‘at the tipping point’, warns UBS, with ‘significant price corrections’ imminent in many world cities
'We are witnessing the owner-occupied housing boom finally under pressure globally,' says UBS, which warns of 'significant price corrections' in a majority of the highly-valued global cities in the coming…
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