Real Estate Bubbles in The 2000s
By 2006, several areas of the world were thought to be in a bubble state, although this contention was not without controversy. This hypothesis was based on observation of similar patterns in real estate markets of a wide variety of countries. This includes similar patterns of overvaluation and excessive borrowing based on those overvaluations.
The subprime mortgage crisis, with its accompanying impacts and effects on economies in various nations, has given some credence to the idea that these trends might have some common characteristics.
For individual countries, see:
- Australian property bubble - 1997 - 2012
- British property bubble
- Bulgarian property bubble
- Chinese property bubble
- Danish property bubble
- Indian property bubble
- Irish property bubble - 1999 - 2006
- Japanese asset price bubble
- Lebanese property bubble
- Polish property bubble
- Romanian property bubble
- Spanish property bubble
- United States housing bubble - 1997 - 2006
- Greek property bubble
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