Housing Vs Stocks: Stocks Win
Brian Gilmartin | Sep 06, 2021 12:15AM ET
One of our favorite sources of capital markets research is the Bespoke work and the weekly Bespoke Report. Once again, on page 36 of this past week's report, I found the following particularly fascinating:
This is probably subject to some vigorous debate, but the Case-Shiller stats are clear.
h2 Summary/conclusion/h2Both after the Great Financial Crisis (Mortgage Crisis) of 2008, and today, with a zero fed funds rate, I was continuously worried about a 200 – 300 bp rise in mortgage rates turning the housing market into a landscape that resembles a nuclear winter.
We saw a glimpse of that in the 2nd half of 2018 when—at least in Chicago anyway—real estate prices in some of the tonier areas north of downtown started to flag. (Part of it could have been the passage of the real estate tax cap with Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, but some was also due to higher mortgage rates after Janet Yellen started tightening monetary policy.)
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