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Are interest rates and home prices actually linked?

The media often says it's all interest rates, but many factors go into home prices. One in particular.
Sebastian Ferrando
Koda Capital
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Chart of the Week - The housing market is at risk

US Housing Market — Sudden Stop: As a result of the rate shock (a 3x jump in indicative servicing costs for a new mortgage), inflation shock (surge in living costs...
Callum Thomas
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Chart of the Week - US Housing Better and Worse

Housing Market Risk: The US housing market is both better and worse than pre-financial crisis. On the one hand debt to income ratios have come down a lot — meaning...
Callum Thomas
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Chart of the Week - Global Property Price Boom (and?)

Pandemic Property Price Pop: Globally, property prices have been juiced to historically expensive levels thanks to pandemic (over)stimulus. As an indication of just...
Callum Thomas
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Chart of the Week - The “SCANNZ Economies“

Pondering the Probability of Echo-Crises: The SCANNZ economies (Sweden, Canada, Australia, Norway, New Zealand) share an interesting set of common features e.g....
Callum Thomas
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Canada hikes again - what does it mean for the "CANZ economies"?

The Bank of Canada hiked interest rates another 25bps to 1.00% today, surprising most. As noted last time (following the July interest rate hike) Canada's housing...
Callum Thomas
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