From dsnews.com:
A majority of real estate experts responding to a recent Zillow survey expressed some concern that the Federal Reserve’s current policies could lead to another housing bubble.
Only 4 percent of respondents are not at all worried about a bubble resulting from the Fed’s monetary policy that is keeping mortgage rates down. However, 48 percent see the Fed’s policies as “a little risky,” and the remaining 48 percent categorized the risk as “moderate to high risk.”
“How the Federal Reserve handles the eventual winding down of its policy of quantitative easing will be critical in determining if the current period of rapid appreciation is a benign bounce off the bottom or a more dangerous bubble being re-inflated,” said Stan Humphries, chief economist at Zillow.
The more than 100 survey respondents expect home prices to continue their upward trajectory this year and over the next few years. However, the general consensus is that price increases will slow after the next year or so.
Experts expect prices to end this year 5.4 percent higher than their level at the start of the year. After ending 2012 at $156,800, the median price would end this year at $165,280, according to this forecast.
From 2015 through 2017, experts suggest a more modest rise per year of 3.5 to 3.7 percent.
A cumulative rise of 22.3 percent is forecasted through 2017, according to Zillow’s survey.
Could lead to another bubble?
Stormin sent this in, another green light from the investment guy with a second resounding rec:
http://dailytradealert.com/2013/05/08/a-once-in-two-generations-investment-opportunity/
Well, it looks like we have circled back to the very thing that fueled the first housing bubble:
seeing a home purchase through investment prism.
Keep eating dog food old people. The days of being able to live off your retirement savings is over. Buy hard assets now because The Fed/Wall Street doesn’t care about you.