US Housing Market Housing Bubble or Real Demand?

In North America, housing construction demand drove prices up and production responded.

The decline in housing construction has added to the current shortfall in aggregate demand.

A strong housing market in the US continued to support strong demand for OSB.

Property or capital gains taxes could help curb demand for housing as an investment vehicle.

On the demand side, subsidies should focus on helping families choose from the entire housing market.

Other policy moves aimed at boosting demand in the housing and auto market also proved effective.

And, with demand high and housing supply fixed at least in the short run prices go up.

In order to separate the problem of the overall housing deficit from the problem of families with inadequate housing, policymakers need to address both supply and demand.

Strong housing markets, providing demand for 75 of structural wood products, drove wood product prices higher in 2004.

These cities are potential candidates for some price erosion, possibly on a substantial scale, if housing demand falls.

Obviously government policies to stimulate national economies have revived housing and other construction markets, creating demand for sawnwood.

Since then the transition to a market economy has increased incomes and fuelled demand for new and better housing.

Low interest rates strengthen the ability to pay, and thus boost demand. And, with demand high and housing supply fixed at least in the short run prices go up.

Special attention will be given to research on housing production by the poorest groups, including women, who do not have sufficient income to offer effective demand for the formal housing market.

It may also help explain why housing prices rarely slowly decline to market clearing levels during periods of low demand.

Nevertheless, this group, which statistically represents 68.6 per cent of the working population, is the sector generating most housing demand.

Many young people move from rural to urban areas in search of work, thus increasing the demand for urban housing.

By contrast, the addition of 700billion on the demand side may not be sufficient to arrest the decline of housing prices.

The ramifications for interest rate spreads, emerging market equities, and housing demand, among much else, are the subject of widespread debate.

The situation in Paris seems to be at an impasse, given that the demand for student housing won't fall anytime soon.

Strong prices in the US due to record housing starts and high sawnwood demand compensated for the strengthening of the euro.

All that is required is that growth in housing supply eventually outstrips investors faith in capitalism to sustain faster growth in demand.

Low long term interest rates have, however, stimulated the demand for housing in many countries, a tendency that has been partly reinforced by quite substantial increases in housing prices and associated expectations of further capital gains.

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This can be attributed mostly to the huge housing market and stock beam capacity that was available at the time to service increased demand.

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Now the worries are about a stagflationary supply shock say, a war with Iran coupled with a deflationary demand shock as housing bubbles go bust.

The outlook for 2005 and 2006 is for North American sawnwood consumption to attain similar levels to 2004, corresponding to housing starts and related demand.

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