real estate bubble

In Price of Farmland, an Echo of the Last Boom

NYT > Business  Thu, 03/03/2011 - 18:19

Regulators are warning that a new real estate bubble may be forming as farmland prices surge across the Midwest.


 

China’s Real Estate Boom and Conflicting Policy

NYT > Business  Sun, 08/01/2010 - 18:45

Even as China tries to avoid a debt-driven real estate bubble, state-owned companies have been driving up prices by outbidding private developers for land.


 

Market Defies Fear of Real Estate Bubble in China

NYT > Business  Thu, 03/04/2010 - 21:37

China is in the middle of a spectacular real estate boom. But the question is whether it is in the middle of a bubble — one that might threaten the global economy.


 

Real Estate in Cape Coral, Fla., Is Far From a Recovery

NYT > Business  Sat, 01/02/2010 - 15:20

A return to Cape Coral, Fla., a reluctant symbol for the excesses of the great American real estate bubble, shows how far the recovery has to go.


 

Hong Kong apartment sells for whopping $57 million

Newsvine - business  Wed, 10/14/2009 - 07:29

It's a price tag that would make even New Yorkers and Londoners gasp — an outsized luxury apartment sold for nearly $57 million in Hong Kong Wednesday amid growing fears of a real estate bubble.


 

Subprime brokers mutate into loan fixers

MSNBC.com: Business  Mon, 07/20/2009 - 08:30

Many of the same people who dispensed risky mortgages during the real estate bubble have reconstituted themselves into a new industry focused on selling loan modifications.