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Comment by hans1729

I mean, it's not really a burst, we're just hearing the hissing noise of the obvious leak.

The true demand from people with the intend to actually live in the estates has been constantly decreasing since around 2000; the real salarys dropped since then, so did the buying power.

The only reasons people found buyers at x3-x10 (!) prices were

a) that there is a class of people wealthy enough to still afford the purchase, even at those completely-out-of-touch prices, and

b) that people were given loans they should either never have gotten (2008) or that they shouldn't have asked for (because it's dumb to buy estates where the price is set by people and institutions that have n times your own income/net worth)

When 90 (?) percent of people simply lack the buying power to participate in the real estate market, but the other 10% happily sell each other estates, that's not a bubble, the real estate market just stopped interfacing with the vast majority of the population.

parent hans1729 4 years ago

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