Boomer demographics and postponement of marriage on account of student debt and poor finances are two of the key reasons that I long-ago stated the housing recovery would be slow for a decade. Declining birthrates now show...

David Rosenberg, the bearish economist at Gluskin Sheff, isn’t convinced that the U.S. housing market is on the up and up. He points to the number of months it takes to sell a new house. From his...

For some time now there has been chatter of a housing bubble in Germany, as home prices increased at levels not seen since the 1970s.  Home prices increased 9.5 percent year-over-year in the first quarter, after climbing...

We’ve been writing about the recovery in housing for awhile now, but clearly it’s gone officially mainstream, since even Gawker now snarks that we’re heading back into housing bubble territory. Note that there’s nothing bubbly in the...

Robert Shiller has finally gone off the deep end. He wants to condemn millions of US guaranteed mortgages from the bankster mafia. Shiller: My colleague Karl Case and I showed in 1996 that when the value of...

Minutes away from the key data point of the day: Housing Starts. Economists polled by Bloomberg forecast the annual pace of starts accelerated by 0.7 percent in May to 722,000. Building permits are also scheduled for release...

Chinese policymakers have for a while been trying to deflate the nation’s property bubble. While its housing market has been correcting, and prices are deflating at a moderate speed, it hasn’t bottomed yet, according to Societe Generale...