Wednesday 29 February 2012

Things To Know About The US Housing Bubble

By Mike Davis


The US housing bubble was just one of the many different parts of the United States' economy. There are other areas of the economy that the housing bubble will affect aside from house prices. If you are looking at the US housing bubble then there are a number of things that should be taken into account.

The first thing to know is what a housing bubble is. Housing bubbles can happen in any country that has a real estate market. Housing bubbles are normally when the price of housing increase until they are no longer sustainable. The recent housing bubble in the US actually coincides with similar bubbles in other countries like the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Spain.

Hindsight is thought to be the only way that a housing bubble can be spotted. In fact 2004 is when the housing bubble in America was first identified. The identification of the housing bubble and the many reasons for it was laid out in a number of articles at the time. As the American housing bubble happened at the same time as many in other countries there were a number of people that felt that it should be analyzed in a global sense and not a domestic one.

There are many people who did not wish to admit that there was a housing bubble at all even when there was evidence presented. There were cautions sent out to people of importance in the financial world warning them about over extending themselves. Analysts warned in 2006 that many companies may come to suffer from this.

The housing bubble did have a number of side effects. One of the side effects was the increase in building of new houses. As the market was up more people built houses to sell at high rates. The price of houses made many people leave the high priced areas in many metropolitan areas. This saw populations in commuter towns rapidly increase.

No housing bubble will be able to continue indefinitely and the US bubble is exactly the same. The beginning of the end came in 2007 when the mortgage industry took a hit due to the increase in foreclosures. This was just the beginning of not only the collapse of the housing bubble but also many other areas of the global economy.

There are many aspects of a countries economics and the US housing bubble is just one of them. The popping of the housing bubble was inevitable even with the people who didn't want to recognize it being there.




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